A pair of outstanding Louis XV ormolu-mounted powder-blue Chinese porcelain vases - image-1

Lot 691 Dα

A pair of outstanding Louis XV ormolu-mounted powder-blue Chinese porcelain vases

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 6.000 € - 8.000 €
Result: 7.560 € (incl. premium)
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A pair of outstanding Louis XV ormolu-mounted powder-blue Chinese porcelain vases

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. One restored rim chip. H 30 cm.
Kangxi period, 1662 - 1722.

Literature

Cf. 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.