A pair of Louis XV Saint-Cloud porcelain bottle coolers (seaux à bouteille), circa 1720-1730
Auction Closed
November 26, 04:58 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
each painted in blue, green, yellow, iron-red and brown, heightened in gilding, on one side with four chinoiserie figures holding fans or flowers, seated or standing by a table with a vase of flowers within a fenced terrace, and to the other with elaborate birds perched in branches above banded hedges, beneath a border of flowers and leaves, each handle modelled as an open-mouthed dolphin, the foot and upper rim moulded with gadroons
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Haut. 18,4 cm, larg. 28 cm
Height 7 in, width. 11 in
Collection Jules Desurmont (1863-1919) ;
Brian Haughton Gallery, London ;
Christie's Londres, The Exceptional sale, 7 July 2022, lot 33.
La Porcelaine Française de 1673 a 1914: La Porcelaine contemporaine de Limoges, November – December 1929, Pavillon de Marsan, Palais du Louvre, Paris, no. 95.
Exhibition catalogue, La Porcelaine Française de 1673 à 1914: La Porcelaine contemporaine de Limoges, Pavillon de Marsan, Palais du Louvre, Paris, 1929, p. 9, no. 95 and pl. III.
P. Alfassa and J. Guérin, Porcelaine française du XVIIe au milieu du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1931, p. 38 and illustrated pl. 11, fig. A.
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