Online Auction 23287Two American Collections: The Estates of Adolphus and Emily Andrews, San Francisco and Donald Bruce Wilson, Memphis
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FIGURES
Lot 119PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. BRUCE WILSON

A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FIGURES

THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1735, THE ORMOLU LATER

Closed18 June 2024

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USD 6,000–8,000

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN FIGURES
THE PORCELAIN CIRCA 1735, THE ORMOLU LATER
Each in the Chinoiserie taste, modeled with a figure seated on rocky outcroppings applied with foliage, both with one arm gesturing upwards, the associated ormolu stands cast and chased with openwork scrolled acanthus
10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) high, the female figure

Vince Camuto: Designer and Collector; Christie's, New York, 29 June 2021, lot 95.

Specialist note

For a nearly identical pair of unmounted figures, see A. D'Agliano, C. Lehner-Jobst, et. al., Brittle Beauty: Reflections on 18th-Century European Porcelain, London, 2023, pp. 234-237. Two further similarly modeled pairs with polychrome decoration, one pair unmounted the other mounted as candelabra, are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 54.147.10-11 and acc. no. 1982.60.253-254).

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