Online Auction 23287Two American Collections: The Estates of Adolphus and Emily Andrews, San Francisco and Donald Bruce Wilson, Memphis
A LARGE PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN FAUX LAPIS GROUND VASES (VASES FORME OEUF, 3EME GRANDUER)
Lot 181PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. BRUCE WILSON

A LARGE PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN FAUX LAPIS GROUND VASES (VASES FORME OEUF, 3EME GRANDUER)

DATED 1873, GREEN LONZENGE AND IRON-RED DECORE MARKS, INCISED D 72 11

Closed18 June 2024

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USD 12,000–18,000

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A LARGE PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN FAUX LAPIS GROUND VASES (VASES FORME OEUF, 3EME GRANDUER)
DATED 1873, GREEN LONZENGE AND IRON-RED DECORE MARKS, INCISED D 72 11
Each of baluster form, the shoulders set with upright acanthus scroll handles with female-mask terminals, the mottled blue ground enriched with gilt lines and powdered gilt in imitation of lapis lazuli, on a conforming socle
27 5/8 in. (70.2 cm.) high

Specialist note

An identical pair of vases were sold at Christie's, New York, 21 October 2008, lot 85. For a further pair of the same form see Brigitte Ducrot, Porcelaines et Terres de Sèvres, Musée du Château de Compièine, Paris, 1993, p. 296, cat no. 226.

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