Live Auction 16353Kenneth Neame: Including Arts of India, English and European Furniture and Works of Art, European and Chinese Ceramics, Chinese and Old Master Paintings
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER MACHE VASES
Lot 144

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER MACHE VASES

BY JENNENS AND BETTRIDGE, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed13 June 2018

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GBP 6,250

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GREEN AND GILT-JAPANNED PAPIER MACHE VASES
BY JENNENS AND BETTRIDGE, MID-19TH CENTURY
Each of baluster form, the bodies decorated with scrolling foliage and ho-ho birds, the underside stamped JENNENS & BETTRIDGE, LONDON above a crown, recently converted to lamps with later brass bases and pleated green silk shades
20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high, excluding fitments

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, 14 January 2014, lot 77.

Specialist note

The firm of Messrs. Aaron Jennens & T. H. Bettridge (fl. 1815-1864) were reputed for their manufacture of highly skilled papier-mâché wares. Jennens and Bettridge, originally based in Birmingham, took over Henry Clay's workshops in 1816. They set up a London shop at 3 West Halkin Street, Belgravia in 1837 and opened offices in Paris and New York two years later.