AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED FRENCH PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND THREE-PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE (VASE 'FERRE')
Lot 206PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. BRUCE WILSON

AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED FRENCH PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND THREE-PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE (VASE 'FERRE')

THE PAIR OF VASES POSSIBLY SEVRES CIRCA 1764 WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER L, THE PAINTING POSSIBLY BY J.-B. NOULHIER AND A. CATON, THE CLOCK LIKELY OF LATER DATE, THE COVERS LATER REPLACEMENTS

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED FRENCH PORCELAIN GREEN-GROUND THREE-PIECE CLOCK GARNITURE (VASE 'FERRE')
THE PAIR OF VASES POSSIBLY SEVRES CIRCA 1764 WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER L, THE PAINTING POSSIBLY BY J.-B. NOULHIER AND A. CATON, THE CLOCK LIKELY OF LATER DATE, THE COVERS LATER REPLACEMENTS
Each oviform vase with turquoise lozenges around the rim, finely painted with floral bouquets within oval reserves, the flanking pair each with a bucolic scene, the central vase with circular white enamel dial, the movement indistinctly signed Jouret á Paris, fitted with ormolu rope swags, the ormolu bases cast and chased with flowerheads
19 ¾ in. (50.2 cm.) high

Victor de Rothschild; Sotheby's, London, 19 April 1937, lot 113.
The Christner Collection; Christie's, New York, 9 June 1979, lot 251.
Property of a Texas Collector; Christie's, New York, 1 November 1990, lot 65.
With Jean Lupu, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 2000, lot 131 (as Sèvres, purchased after the sale).