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Auction archive: Lot number 29

A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED SÈVRES SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN `VASES MEDICI',...

Estimate
£600,000 - £1,000,000
ca. US$935,355 - US$1,558,926
Price realised:
£1,777,250
ca. US$2,770,601
Auction archive: Lot number 29

A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED SÈVRES SOFT-PASTE PORCELAIN `VASES MEDICI',...

Estimate
£600,000 - £1,000,000
ca. US$935,355 - US$1,558,926
Price realised:
£1,777,250
ca. US$2,770,601
Beschreibung:

A pair of gilt-bronze-mounted Sèvres soft-paste porcelain `Vases Medici', almost certainly supplied by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre the mounts attributed to Pierre-Philippe-Thomire (1751-1843) Louis XVI, circa 1788-1790 superbly painted on a pale blue ground with 'rich arabesques' including, on the upper part, draped tables supporting steaming brûle-parfums alternating with others hanging from draped baldaquins, the lower part with urns filled with flowers and overflowing with water, held within a delicate and elaborate décor of foliage, grapevine and feather arabesques, on a grey-marbleised square base, the mounts with an egg and dart rimmed bowl and twin scrolled handles cast with fruiting vine tracery; the vases cracked, the ormolu with some repair and losses vases without the mounts each 37.2cm high, with mounts 42.8cm high; 1ft. 2½in., 1ft. 5in.

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
4 Jul 2012
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

A pair of gilt-bronze-mounted Sèvres soft-paste porcelain `Vases Medici', almost certainly supplied by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre the mounts attributed to Pierre-Philippe-Thomire (1751-1843) Louis XVI, circa 1788-1790 superbly painted on a pale blue ground with 'rich arabesques' including, on the upper part, draped tables supporting steaming brûle-parfums alternating with others hanging from draped baldaquins, the lower part with urns filled with flowers and overflowing with water, held within a delicate and elaborate décor of foliage, grapevine and feather arabesques, on a grey-marbleised square base, the mounts with an egg and dart rimmed bowl and twin scrolled handles cast with fruiting vine tracery; the vases cracked, the ormolu with some repair and losses vases without the mounts each 37.2cm high, with mounts 42.8cm high; 1ft. 2½in., 1ft. 5in.

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
4 Jul 2012
Auction house:
Sotheby's
London
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