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A LOUIS XV GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED
CHINESE BLUE MONOCHROME PORCELAIN
EWER – CIRCA 1750

The porcelain Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
Height: 40 cm. (15 ¾ in.) Width: 20.7 cm. (8 ¼ in.) Width of base: 14 cm. (5 ½
in.)
Inventory number inscribed in red under the base B 139
PROVENANCE
Sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 20 December 1932 (“Collection d’un
amateur”, Maître Beaudoin, commissaire-priseur), lot 74
Collection of Baronne Cassel Van Doorn, sold Etienne Ader, Galerie
Charpentier, Paris, 30 May 1956, lot 69
Sold Lombrail-Teucquam, Paris, 21 November 2003, lot 178
Collection of Pierre Jourdan-Barry, Paris

A LOUIS XV GILT BRONZE-MOUNTED
CHINESE CELADON PORCELAIN POT POURRI
VASE – CIRCA 1750-1755

The porcelain 18th Century
Height: 27 cm. (10 ½ in.) Width: 29 cm. (11 ½ in.) Depth: 20 cm. (7 ¾ in.)
PROVENANCE
Algernon Heber Percy, Hodnet Hall, Shropshire, sold Christie’s London,
30 November 1967, lot 72
Partridge Fine Arts, London
Lord & Lady Weinstock, Bowden Park, Wiltshire
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
An identical pair of pot pourri in the Musée Cognacq-Jay in Paris (inv.
J. 274) is illustrated in R-M. Herda-Mousseaux (ed.), La fabrique du luxe
: les marchands merciers parisiens au XVIIIe siècle, exh. cat., Paris, Musée
Cognacq-Jay, 29 Sep 2018 – 27 Jan 2019, p. 164, no. 53.
Another very similar pair is in the Jones Collection at the Victoria & Albert
Museum, London (inv. 811&A:1-1882) and illustrated in Victoria and
Albert Museum: Catalogue of the Jones Collection, part II, London, 1924, p.
45 no. 188 and p. 45, no. 188, pl. 41.
An identical pot pourri vase in crackled celadon porcelain was in the
collection of André Meyer, sold Christie’s New York, 26 October 2001,
lot 5.

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