LOUIS XVI GILT BRONZE MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE THREE PIECE BRULES PARFUM VASE GARNITURE
CIRCA 1790
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Auction: Day 2 - Thurs 15th May from 10am | Lots 314 to 602
Description
the ovoid bodies with domed covers with berry finials, above pierced collars and flanked by handles with female masks in the style of Gouthière, joined with chain swags, on foliate mounted socles and white marble bases (3)
Dimensions
the larger 34cm high; the pair 28.5cm high
Provenance
With Partridge Gallery, London;
Sotheby's, Paris, Doha / Paris, un Décor Princier, 30 June 2021, lot 182 (32,760 EUR)
Footnote
The vase mounting of this group is distinguished by the quality and delicacy of the chiseling, notably in the modelling of the face. This type of female mask with hair parted on each side of the temples evokes works by the engraver Pierre Gouthière (circa 1732-1811) who used this motif after the 1760s. There is an example of the central vase with imitation porphyry fitting, mounted with gilt bronze per the request of the goldsmith François-Thomas Germain and acquired by the King of Poland, Stanislaw August Poniatowski in 1764 (ill. in C. Vignon and C. Baulez, Pierre Gouthière, Pierre Gouthière, ciseleur-doreur du roi, Paris, 2016, No.3, pp. 158-163). A pair of vases adorned with the same masks was presented at Sotheby's Paris, 27 April 2017, lot 210.