Online Auction 23287Two American Collections: The Estates of Adolphus and Emily Andrews, San Francisco and Donald Bruce Wilson, Memphis
A PAIR OF SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS
Lot 118PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. BRUCE WILSON

A PAIR OF SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS

SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed18 June 2024

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USD 3,000–5,000

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A PAIR OF SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FLOWER-ENCRUSTED POT-POURRI VASES AND COVERS
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each vase of fluted tapering ovoid form raised on a base of rockwork with foliage, the pierced shoulders applied with floral garlands, the removable pierced domed covers further applied with flowers
11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 7-8 February 2017, lot 236.

Specialist note

For other Saint-Cloud pot-pourris with similar applied flowers, see L.H. Roth and C. Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Wadsworth Atheneum, 2000, cat. no. 1 for an example from the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection and B. Randot, ed., Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1690-1766, New York, 1999, cat. nos. 164 and 165.

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