A pair of Louis XVI gilt bronze-mounted Paris hard-paste porcelain vases (vases à monter)
circa 1780-1785

The porcelain 18th Century

Height: 33 cm. (13 in.)                                                          Width: 13 cm. (5 ¼ in.)

Provenance :

Perrin, Paris, 1972

Comparative Literature:

A garniture of three Sevres porcelain vases with identical gilt-bronze handles was delivered to Queen Marie-Antoinette between 1774 and 1776 and sold from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Djahanguir Riahi, Christie’s New York, 2 November 2000, lot 47