Works of Art
18th century
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Works of Art du 18th century
Pair of Chinese porcelain and gilded bronze vases
DIMENSIONS : H. 12.01 .in
MATERIAUX : Porcelain and gilded bronze mount
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?Rare pair of Meiping vases in Chinese porcelain.
Model with a white background enriched with yellow, pink, green, white and blue polychrome enamels.
Very beautiful decoration of tree peonies in a rocky environment of palace gardens, with butterflies, perched birds, a rare crane in flight or even a deer eating a strain of linghzi mushrooms.
The shoulder is surrounded by a frieze with ruyi heads which is centered with flowers on a background of lattices.
The collar is decorated with scrolls of flowers.
Bronze mount with square bases decorated with interlacing friezes and Greek-style recesses with scraper reserves.
The bases surmounted by rings with laurel tori which surround the feet of the vases.
The collars decorated with flared and openwork necklines.
Original mercury gilding (wear).
Very good state of conservation, without accident; the bottoms formerly drilled to be mounted as a lamp.
Porcelain, China, famille rose, Jinqxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, reign of Emperor Yongzheng around 1720-1730.
The bronze mount adapted under Louis XVI by a Parisian mercer to transform vases into pots pourris.
Dimensions:
Height of vases: 23 cm