拍品专文
See note to lot 212.
It is conceivable that these exuberant pot-pourri vases were supplied by Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1845) as they correspond directly to the Louis XV taste he so successfully promoted. It is interesting to note, therefore, that in the sale of E.H. Baldock junior's 'Old French Decorative Objects' in these Rooms June 30 1905, the majority of which had been inherited from his father, the description of lot 105 reads 'A PAIR OF BOWLS AND COVERS OF CHINESE CELADON CRACKLE; each most elaborately mounted with composition of scrollwork, groups of fruit and flowers, of or-molu; cast and finely chased in the manner of Caffieri 15in high'
A pot-pourri vase with very similar mounts but with bowls of slightly different form in the J. Paul Getty Museum is illustrated in A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, A Handbook of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1986, no.194. A similar pair acquired by Baron Edmond de Rothschild at Waddesdon is illustrated in R. J. Charleston and J. Ayers, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Meissen and other European Porcelain, Fribourg, 1971, p..264-265, no.85.
It has been suggested that these mounts were all made in the same fondeur-ciseleur's atelier (F. J. B. Watson and G. Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1982, p.54). The other known examples of this model all appear to be stamped with the C couronné poinçon in use between 5 March 1745 and 4 February 1749. As none appear to be stamped on each individual piece of ormolu and some are stamped on only a few pieces, it might indicate that they were first made after the repeal of the tax in 1749 but largely using mounts made within the period of the tax. Ormolu-mounted oriental porcelain was the height of fashion at this date and Lazare Duvaux supplied such pot-pourris, for example, Deux Pots pourris céladon, montés en bronze doré d'or moulu, 288 livres for the Comtesse de Bentheim on 15 December 1756.
A pair of vases with celadon bowls of this form but with differently modelled arms and finials, was sold in these Rooms, 30 May 1968, lot 27. Another similar pair from the collection of A. C. J. Wall Esq. was sold in these Rooms, 26 November 1970, lot 12.
It is conceivable that these exuberant pot-pourri vases were supplied by Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1845) as they correspond directly to the Louis XV taste he so successfully promoted. It is interesting to note, therefore, that in the sale of E.H. Baldock junior's 'Old French Decorative Objects' in these Rooms June 30 1905, the majority of which had been inherited from his father, the description of lot 105 reads 'A PAIR OF BOWLS AND COVERS OF CHINESE CELADON CRACKLE; each most elaborately mounted with composition of scrollwork, groups of fruit and flowers, of or-molu; cast and finely chased in the manner of Caffieri 15in high'
A pot-pourri vase with very similar mounts but with bowls of slightly different form in the J. Paul Getty Museum is illustrated in A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, A Handbook of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1986, no.194. A similar pair acquired by Baron Edmond de Rothschild at Waddesdon is illustrated in R. J. Charleston and J. Ayers, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Meissen and other European Porcelain, Fribourg, 1971, p..264-265, no.85.
It has been suggested that these mounts were all made in the same fondeur-ciseleur's atelier (F. J. B. Watson and G. Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1982, p.54). The other known examples of this model all appear to be stamped with the C couronné poinçon in use between 5 March 1745 and 4 February 1749. As none appear to be stamped on each individual piece of ormolu and some are stamped on only a few pieces, it might indicate that they were first made after the repeal of the tax in 1749 but largely using mounts made within the period of the tax. Ormolu-mounted oriental porcelain was the height of fashion at this date and Lazare Duvaux supplied such pot-pourris, for example, Deux Pots pourris céladon, montés en bronze doré d'or moulu, 288 livres for the Comtesse de Bentheim on 15 December 1756.
A pair of vases with celadon bowls of this form but with differently modelled arms and finials, was sold in these Rooms, 30 May 1968, lot 27. Another similar pair from the collection of A. C. J. Wall Esq. was sold in these Rooms, 26 November 1970, lot 12.