Live Auction 16115The Collector: English & European Furniture, Fine Art, Ceramics & Silver
FOUR SAINT CLOUD PORCELAIN BOTTLE COOLERS AS FLOWER-POTS
Lot 101 PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN COLLECTION (LOTS 86-141)

FOUR SAINT CLOUD PORCELAIN BOTTLE COOLERS AS FLOWER-POTS

THE COOLERS CIRCA 1740, THE FLOWERS MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE ORMOLU 20TH CENTURY

Closed10 April 2018

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FOUR SAINT CLOUD PORCELAIN BOTTLE COOLERS AS FLOWER-POTS
THE COOLERS CIRCA 1740, THE FLOWERS MID-18TH CENTURY AND LATER, THE ORMOLU 20TH CENTURY
Each molded with terraces of flowering plants with gaping dolphin-mask handles, fitted with porcelain flowers on gilt tole stems
23 in. (58.4 cm.) high overall

The Collection of John T. Dorrance, Jr.; Sotheby's, New York, 20-21 October 1989, lots 155 and 156.

Specialist note

For a Saint Cloud wine cooler in the Musée des Arts dècoratifs, Paris, of the same form and with the same molded decoration as the present four examples, see B. Rondot, ed., Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at The Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1680-1766, New York, 1999, p. 176, no. 93.