A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED ARITA PORCELAIN VASE

The Baron de Lopez Tarragoya formed a distinguished art collection in the early 20th Century, mainly acquired through the Parisian dealers Jacques Seligman, Bensimon and L. Kraemer et fils. Seligman had purchased the bulk of the Hertford-Wallace property in 1914 from 2 rue Lafitte and the Château de Bagatelle, which had been left to Lady Sackville by Sir John Murray Scott (d. 1912). Numerous items in the Lopez Tarragoya collection are said to have come from Sir Richard Wallace's Collection via this source. In addition, the Baron also frequented the great sales of the time at the Galerie Charpentier, Paris, and is known to have bought pieces from the Loewenstein Collection and the Comte de Montesquiou.