A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GRIOTTE MARBLE URNS by H. Picard, each with domed removable lid surmounted by a berried finial, the everted gadrooned rim above a spreading neck and sharply tapering body adorned with spirally scrolling ribbon-twist handles, on spreading reeded socle headed by trailing foliage and a stiff leaf collar, on panelled stepped plinth base enriched with scrolling roses and ribbon-twist moulding, the inside of the marble inscribed three times 1261/(L) Picard, three times 1261/(LL) Picard and twice JBR, each stamped twice on the metal of the base H. PICARD, each stamped 1261, both stamped L and LL numerous times, minor chip to one base, one arm repaired, 19th Century

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GRIOTTE MARBLE URNS by H. Picard, each with domed removable lid surmounted by a berried finial, the everted gadrooned rim above a spreading neck and sharply tapering body adorned with spirally scrolling ribbon-twist handles, on spreading reeded socle headed by trailing foliage and a stiff leaf collar, on panelled stepped plinth base enriched with scrolling roses and ribbon-twist moulding, the inside of the marble inscribed three times 1261/(L) Picard, three times 1261/(LL) Picard and twice JBR, each stamped twice on the metal of the base H. PICARD, each stamped 1261, both stamped L and LL numerous times, minor chip to one base, one arm repaired, 19th Century
14in. (35.5cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

This design is inspired by a group of Sèvres blue-ground porcelain vases with ormolu mounts tentatively attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843). Recorded examples seem often to have been purchased by the marchand-mercier Daguerre and drawings for the vases are inscribed with his name in the archives. A single mounted vase is in the Wallace Collection and is illustrated in R.Savill, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, p.479, C342. Among the other mounted examples are a pair at Harewood House, Yorkshire, and a pair that were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 8 April 1976, lot 13