A PAIR OF EMPIRE PARIS PORCELAIN AND ORMOLU COMPOTS

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY OF TITLE

细节

A PAIR OF EMPIRE PARIS PORCELAIN AND ORMOLU COMPOTS
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMIRE ET CIE.

Each with guilloche-banded ring-handle above a shallow dish with gilt rim and fruiting foliate bands centred by further gilt stylised-lambrequin circles, above a baluster shaft with upturned stiff-leaf issuing from scrolling acanthus, the lower tier with gilt rim and garlanded floral decoration on a blue ground, on tripod lion monopodia, formerly with a further plinth
13½in. (34cm) high (2)

拍品专文

With their acanthus-wrapped and laurel-cast baluster shafts, these compots closely relate to the oeuvre of the ciseleurs-doreurs Thomire et Cie., who flourished until 1843. Virtually identical balusters appear on a pair of candelabra signed THOMIRE A PARIS, which formed part of a surtout de table originally in the collection of the comtes de Pourtales and now in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, band I, p. 382, no. 5.16.1), as well as on a centrepiece in the Victoria and Albert Museum (ibid, p. 387, fig. 5.16.12)