View full screen - View 1 of Lot 38. A gilt-bronze mounted Saint-Cloud white porcelain pot-pourri vase and cover, the porcelain circa 1740, the mounts Louis XV period.

A gilt-bronze mounted Saint-Cloud white porcelain pot-pourri vase and cover, the porcelain circa 1740, the mounts Louis XV period

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June 24, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 EUR

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Description

with pierced shoulder and domed cover, applied with garlands of leafy flower vines, upon a rockwork mound base, with a gilt-bronze pierced gallery at the rim of the vase, the rockwork affixed with bronze trailing flower vines, raised on a bronze mount supported by four pomegranate-form feet 


Height 10 ⅜ in; 26,5 cm

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1968, lot 53 (to Patch for £550);

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 3 December 1984, lot 12.

A further St. Cloud pot-pourri vase of this form, mounted in a very similar manner with gilt-bronze water weeds, was sold at Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 22 February 1974, lot 246.