A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND SEVRES PORCELAIN VASES

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND SEVRES PORCELAIN VASES

AFTER THE MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIERE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

each with a royal blue ovoid body applied with leaf and flower swags, 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, later drilled and fitted for electricity (2)

104cm 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 enriched with ormolu festoons of flowers, 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.