A pair of Louis XV gilt bronze-mounted Chinese
famille verte porcelain ewers
circa 1750-1755
The porcelain Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Height: 31 cm. (12 ¼ in.) Width: 16 cm. (6 ¼ in.) Depth: 15 cm. (6 in.)
Provenance
Galerie Steinitz, Paris
Sold Sotheby’s New York, 20 May 2010, lot 27
Comparative Literature
A virtually identical pair formerly in the collection of Baron Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, is in the Lesley and Emma Sheafer Bequest at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1974.356.227 and 228).