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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-LEAD-MOUNTED POLYCHROME AND GILT-JAPANNED TOLE CACHE-POTS
Lot 215 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-LEAD-MOUNTED POLYCHROME AND GILT-JAPANNED TOLE CACHE-POTS

SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Closed27 October 2015

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-LEAD-MOUNTED POLYCHROME AND GILT-JAPANNED TOLE CACHE-POTS
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each decorated with courtly figures in a landscape with pavilions, the moulded edge above the circular tapering body with bearded masks to the sides issuing the foliate cast handles on a moulded spreading foot, with later liners, losses to the decoration
8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) high; 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) wide; 8 in. (20.5 cm.) deep

The Wildenstein Collection; Sold Christie's, London, December 14-15, 2005, lot 6, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

A closely related pair of tôle seaux à bouteille are signed François Louis Dorez fecit à lille (sold anonymously at Sotheby's London, 5 July 1985, lot 62). Dorez was a member of a large family of Lille faienciers and moved to Valenciennes to set up a faience workshop in 1737, at which time he was trying to sell a lacquer commode, possibly also of tôle (see John Whitehead, The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century, Singapore, 1992, p.192).

A pair of almost identical seaux a raffraichissoir is in the musée Carnavalet, Paris (illustrated in Collection Henriette Bouvier, Paris, 1968, no. 20).