
Description
A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN BRULES-PARFUM
CIRCA 1795
Details
Each pierced spreading cover mounted with a plume finial issuing from a disc of grey marble, the glazed porcelain body oviform and mounted with maiden masks continuing to lions' paws, on a tripartite base on turned feet 141⁄2 in. (37 cm.) high
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Keck, La Lanterne, Bel Air, California; Sotheby's, New York, 5-6 December 1991, lot 16. Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above.
Lot Essay
An almost identical pair, with Jeremy, London, were exhibited Grosvenor House, 1970, exh. cat. p. 54.
CIRCA 1795
Details
Each pierced spreading cover mounted with a plume finial issuing from a disc of grey marble, the glazed porcelain body oviform and mounted with maiden masks continuing to lions' paws, on a tripartite base on turned feet 141⁄2 in. (37 cm.) high
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Keck, La Lanterne, Bel Air, California; Sotheby's, New York, 5-6 December 1991, lot 16. Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above.
Lot Essay
An almost identical pair, with Jeremy, London, were exhibited Grosvenor House, 1970, exh. cat. p. 54.
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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARIS PORCELAIN BRULES-PARFUM CIRCA 1795
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