Live Auction 7464Un hôtel particulier du Faubourg Saint-Germain The Collection of The Marquis and Marquise de Ravenel
A PAIR OF SMALL TABLE-TOP BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SQUARE PLANTERS
Lot 11

A PAIR OF SMALL TABLE-TOP BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SQUARE PLANTERS

MID-20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE VERSAILLES MODEL

Closed22 November 2007

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A PAIR OF SMALL TABLE-TOP BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SQUARE PLANTERS
MID-20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE VERSAILLES MODEL
With removable tin liners, two feet lacking brass plates
7½ in. (19 cm.) high; 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) square (2)

Specialist note

These minature planters are inspired by those in Louis XIV's Orangery at Versailles. The planters, over five hundred of which came from Vaux-le-Vicomte, housed more than three thousand orange trees, some of which Louis XIV gifted to his maitresse-en-titre Athenäis de Montespan.