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A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND 'GORGE DE PIGEON' OPALINE GLASS EWERS
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Each with everted spout and waisted neck, with a swan's head, foliate and grape-vine handle
15 in. (38 cm.) high (2)

来源

Dr. and Mme. Castille; Versailles, 17 March 1991, lot 170.
With Didier Aaron, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 2001, lot 86.

出版

F. Duret-Robert, 'De Buonaparte et des Bourbons', Connaissance des Arts, March 1991, p. 40.
P. Kjellberg, Objets Montés du Moyen Age à nos jours, Paris, 2000, p. 176.

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This magnificent pair of ewers is one of the largest and earliest examples of ormolu-mounted colored opaline glass. Their striking rich pink color, much rarer than the bright blues or milky whites, is known as 'gorge de pigeon', or 'pigeon's throat,' and is achieved when gold and pewter particles are added to the liquid lead crystal. The design, with their elegant swan's neck handles, derives from a drawing for a ewer which appears in plate XVIII of the hugely influential Receuil de Décorations Intérieures by Charles Percier and Pierre Franois-Lonard Fontaine, first published in 1801. This book's enormous popularity became the template for the distinct aesthetic associated with Napoleon's court which is now called the Empire style.

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