Live Auction 14224The Collector: English Furniture, Clocks & Works of Art
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY VASES AND COVERS
Lot 84 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN, FROM BELMONT HOUSE, EAST SUSSEX (LOTS 77-90)

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY VASES AND COVERS

IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, BY MAISON MILLET, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed15 November 2017

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GBP 22,500

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY VASES AND COVERS
IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, BY MAISON MILLET, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each cover with pomegranate finial above a waisted neck and ovoid body with a scrolled rose-branch band flanked by Bacchic masks, on a spreading laurel-wreathed socle and square foot, on a square fixed base signed 'Millet à Paris'
25 in. (64 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 22 September 2011, lot 28.

Specialist note

Established by Théodore Millet in 1853, the Maison Millet operated until 1902 from premises at 11, rue Jacques-Coeur, Paris, before relocating to 23, boulevard Beaumarchais. Specialising in 'meubles et bronzes d'art, genre ancien et moderne', with an accent on the Louis XV and XVI styles, Millet won awards in Paris and London including a gold medal at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle, a Grand Prix in 1900 and three further diplômes d'honneur and four médailles d'or. In 1902 the firm was authorised by the director of the Palace of Versailles to replicate Marie-Antoinette's celebrated Grand cabinet à bijoux. An auction of the firm's inventory was held in 1906 and they finally ceased trading in 1918.