A PAIR OF FRENCH RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND SEVRES PORCELAIN VASES

A PAIR OF FRENCH RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND SEVRES PORCELAIN VASES

AFTER THE MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIERE, C.1820-30 AND LATER

each with a royal blue ovoid body with entwined serpent handles, with stiff leaf decoration and a band of laurel to the spreading foot, later fitted with lily flower and leaf three-light candelabra branches, on a later fluted plinth, later drilled and fitted for electricity (2)

110.2cm high

Provenance

Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) the Ante-Room to the Central Hall / Salon, Halton House, Buckinghamshire

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

Literature

Rothschild Archive, London, Manuscript: 000/174/C/3, Christie, Manson & Woods Probate Valuation of 'The Estate of Alfred C. de Rothschild, Esq. C.V.O. Deceased, Halton House Tring', 1918. Listed as 'A pair of Louis XVI candelabra, formed of gros bleu Sevres porcelain vases, mounted with ormolu serpent handles and lily branches for three lights.'

Catalogue Note

A related example is in the Jones Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London accession no. (982 A-1882) and is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer / P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol.I, Munich, 1989, p.259, fig. 4.7.12.