A pair of Chinese famille rose tureens

A pair of Louis XV gilt bronze-mounted Chinese export
famille rose porcelain tureens – circa 1750-1755

The porcelain 18^th Century

Height: 36 cm. (14 ¼ in.)     Width: 43 cm. (17 in.)

Provenance

Ader, Drouot, Paris, 16 June 1958, lot 18 (ill. pl. 4; sold for 1,000,000 old French Francs)

Christie’s New York, 21 October 1997, lot 177 (sold for $145,500)

Michel Meyer, Biennale 1998

Literature

Pierre Kjellberg, Objets montés: du Moyen Age à nos jours, Paris, 2000, p. 73 (ill.)