拍品 79
79
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES HARD-PASTE PORCELAIN VASES, each painted on one side with Chinese musicians within a drapery cartouche within arabesques and foliate scrolls, the reverse painted with a flower vase, the pierced neck decorated with husks and with waved rim and entwined snake handles, on quadruple lion paw feet and canted concave-sided square base engraved in the centre with a foliate design

细节
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES HARD-PASTE PORCELAIN VASES, each painted on one side with Chinese musicians within a drapery cartouche within arabesques and foliate scrolls, the reverse painted with a flower vase, the pierced neck decorated with husks and with waved rim and entwined snake handles, on quadruple lion paw feet and canted concave-sided square base engraved in the centre with a foliate design
15½in. (39.5cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

The painter's mark is very close to that on the three vases chinois dated 1780 in the Royal Collection illustrated Queen's Gallery, Sèvres, no.40. This mark is illustrated in S. Eriksen and G. de Bellaigue, Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1987, p.154, no.191. It is probably that of Nicolas Schradre, painter and gilder working 1773-75 and 1780-86. A related pair of vases in the Wallace Collection are discussed by R. Savill, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol.I, pp.442-446, c.331-2.