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A VICTORIAN BLACK, GILT AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED TOLE JARDINIERE
Lot 60

A VICTORIAN BLACK, GILT AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED TOLE JARDINIERE

MID-19TH CENTURY

Fermé19 January 2021

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A VICTORIAN BLACK, GILT AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED TOLE JARDINIERE
MID-19TH CENTURY
The egg-shaped bowl with pierced gallery and decorated with chinoiserie scenes, with a later brass liner, on a waisted faceted support headed by Chinese characters and decorated with flowers, on a stepped octagonal base with bun feet, inscribed in chalk 'S508' and 'B3112/1612000'
31 ½ in. (80 cm.) high; 16 in. (41 cm.) diameter

With Partridge, London, 1984.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 27 October 2006, lot 53.

Note du spécialiste


This jardinière or plant stand for a palm or exotic shrub combines antique with French and Chinese ornament in the eclectic fashion introduced by George IV at The Pavilion, Brighton. Its bowl, japanned as trompe l'oeil black and polychrome lacquer with an ormolu gallery, features a chinoiserie vignette of birds, butterflies and figures set amongst garden pavilions. The latter, comprising kiosks and a pagoda, recall the ‘Prospect of the Porcelane Tower at Nan King in China’ engraved in John Hamilton Moore’s New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, 1778. A Chinese inscription adorns the top of its octagonal, reed-banded and hollow-sided pillar, which is festooned in flowering acanthus, while the triumphal palms and laurels which wreathe its Grecian triple-stepped plinth recall an altar to Apollo.