Late collection of the comtesse Georges de Castellane, née Florinda Fernández y Anchorena (1901 – 1995)
An important pair of Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted Chinese porcelain pot-pourri vases, the porcelain Qianlong, circa 1735-1796, the mounts with crowned C, circa 1745-1749
Estimate
200,000 - 400,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
the powder-blue porcelain with traces of the former gilded decoration of pagodas and trees, the mounts with openwork rocaille ornament on an amati ground around the neck, the handles formed of foliate scrolls entwined with reeds, the finial shaped as a swirling branch, with a metal liner; several gilt-bronze mounts marked with the crowned C
Haut. 50 cm, larg. 38 cm ; Height 19 3/4 in., width 15 in.
Former collection of Countess Georges de Castellane, née Florinda Fernández y Anchorena (1901–1995);
Then passed down through the family to the present day
Related literature :
G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Fribourg, 1974.
L. Scheurleer, Chinesishes und Japonishes Porzellan in Europaischen Fassungen, Wurzburg, 1980.
F.J.B. Watson, Chinese porcelain in European Mounts, New York, 1981-81, n°21, pp. 44-45.
P. Kjellberg, Les objets montés. Du Moyen-Age à nos jours, Paris, 2000.
K. Smentek, Rococo exotic: French mounted Porcelains and the Allure of the East, New York, 2007.
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