A pair of outstanding Louis XV ormolu-mounted powder-blue vases. Kangxi period (1662-1722) - image-1

Lot 153 Dα

A pair of outstanding Louis XV ormolu-mounted powder-blue vases. Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
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A pair of outstanding Louis XV ormolu-mounted powder-blue vases. Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Baluster-shaped vases, decorated with auspicious symbols from the Hundred Treasures, including a ruyi scepter, a bat, two scrolls, peonies and vases on a powder blue-ground. Finely chased, fire gilt bronze mount consisting of an openwork rocaille base with floral hangings, S-shaped leaf handles and a floral-leaf border around the lip rim.
H 30 cm.

Literature

Compare Ayers, Oriental Porcelain. The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London 1971, no. 72.
For the mounting compare Wannenes, Les bronzes ornementeaux et les objets montés de Louis XIV à Napoléon III, Mailand 2004, p. 142; see also Verlet, Les bronzes dorés français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 3/2003, no. 159.