A FRENCH ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN ENCRIER

The present lot is closely related to an encrier in the Wallace Collection, London (ill. in P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, vol. II, London, 1996, p. 1044, fig 205 (F286)) and to an inkstand in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor, supplied by Simon-Philippe Poirier to Madame du Barry for the Galerie de Louveciennes (ill. in Madame Du Barry de Versailles à Louvenciennes, exh. cat., 21 March-29 June, 1992, p. 37).