A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS (LOCRET) APPLE-GREEN GROUND PORCELAIN VASES CIRCA 1785, THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE-THOMIRE Each shield-shaped vase painted with grisaille leaves alternate with faux flutes, flanked by double eagle head handles issuing fruiting grape vine and terminating in variant pendant leaves, finely painted front and back with pastoral views of amorous couples before cows, sheep and goats, on a conforming fluted ormolu base molded with stiff leaf tips and acanthus, one stamped ' E 83' 15 ¼ in. (38.5 cm.) high Provenance Almost certainly part of the collection of École Militaire, Paris, in the 1850s. With Vandermeersch, Paris, before 1993. Anonymous sale; Picard, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, 7 March 1993, lot 141. Acquired from Segoura, Paris.
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS (LOCRET) APPLE-GREEN GROUND PORCELAIN VASES CIRCA 1785, THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE-THOMIRE Each shield-shaped vase painted with grisaille leaves alternate with faux flutes, flanked by double eagle head handles issuing fruiting grape vine and terminating in variant pendant leaves, finely painted front and back with pastoral views of amorous couples before cows, sheep and goats, on a conforming fluted ormolu base molded with stiff leaf tips and acanthus, one stamped ' E 83' 15 ¼ in. (38.5 cm.) high Provenance Almost certainly part of the collection of École Militaire, Paris, in the 1850s. With Vandermeersch, Paris, before 1993. Anonymous sale; Picard, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, 7 March 1993, lot 141. Acquired from Segoura, Paris.
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