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A large pair of 19th century Chinese porcelain baluster jars and covers, decorated in famille rose enamels with the 'Hundred Boys' pattern, total height 41cmCondition report: Both with crazing to the glaze. The covers have a few small rim chips and a couple of tiny hairlines. One vase with a crack on the rim with old removed rivet repair, and small chips to foot rim. The other has a cross shaped hairline to the body and a firing imperfection on the rim.
Antique Chinese Kangxi period blue and white porcelain vase and cover, of cylindrical form with stepped base, painted with figures on horseback, total height 14cmCondition report: Good overall condition. The cover has a small hairline and a rim chip. The vase has some flea bites on the rim, a small hairline on the rim, and some fritting around the step at the bottom.
Antique Chinese ceramics, including a large 17th/18th century Dehua blanc de chine cylindrical vase with moulded masks and roundels, 40.5cm height, a 19th century celadon ground vase, an 18th century dish and Imari bowl (4)Condition report: The celadon vase has a missing handle, and the remaining pieces have repairs.
Good garniture of antique Greek revival ceramics, including a pair of pink ground urns by Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co, and a pair of Tuscan Grecian Ware vases (4)Condition report: One Grecian Ware vase has a small foot rim chip, and the other has a foot rim chip with small attached hairline.
Fine antique Chinese famille verte porcelain baluster vase, probably Kangxi period, painted with a bird perched on a branch above flowers and a rocky outcrop, incised concentric circles to base and around neck, 20cm heightCondition report: Small chips to foot rim. Minor scratches and enamel wear.
Two similar fine Japanese Meiji period ivory, shibyama and enamelled silver vessels, each of cylindrical form with twin dragon handles and domed covers with bird mount, raised on bracketed splayed foot, decorated with scenes of birds in trees and with foliate enamelleing, the larger vase with signature plaque, total height 16cm (including the detached bird surmount), the smaller 13cmCondition report: They display well. There are losses to the inlay on both vases, and some pieces appear to have been reglued. Both lids are dented and one of the bird finials has come detached. Minor losses to enamels.
Aynsley Pembroke pattern vase and Wild Tudor pattern sweet dish housed in original boxes, Wedgwood Kutani Crane dish and jasperware dish and cover housed in original boxes, Royal Doulton Christmas plate, Buckingham palace mug, two Prattware pots and lids decorated with Pegwell Bay and Philadelphia Exhibition 1876 (qty)
A PAIR OF FINE AND RARE FRENCH LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE VASES AFTER THE BORGHESE VASE c.1790 each elliptical and with a beaded rim with an egg and leaf dart collar above a finely cast and chased frieze depicting in relief the thiasus, an ecstatic Bacchanalian procession with Dionysus draped with a panther skin and playing the aulos accompanied by Ariadne and various male and female figures playing castanets and musical instruments, with Dionysus supporting a drunken Silenus who is falling down reaching for a spilled flagon of wine and Dionysus holding a thyrsus with a panther at his feet, above a gadrooned body with applied stiff leaves and bulrush decoration and a pair of leaf wrapped handles, above a laurel and berry stem and an acanthus decorated socle with an outer laurel wreath, on a square plinth and a later leaf scroll decorated base with lion's paw feet (2) 44.7cm high, 26cm wide PROVENANCE Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942) Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009) The Trustees of Exbury House LITERATURE Charles Davis, A Description of Works of Art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, 1884, pp.104-105, no.127 where illustrated. CATALOGUE NOTE The Borghese Vase is a monumental bell-shaped kylix sculpted from Pentelic marble. It was made in the second half of the 1st century BC in Greece as a lavish garden ornament for the Roman market. The vase was discovered in 1566 in the gardens of Sallust in Rome together with a Silenus with Infant Bacchus and by 1645 the vase was in the Borghese Villa. On the 27th September 1807 it was acquired by Napoleon Bonaparte and was sent to Paris and placed in the Louvre where it has remained since 1811. It is one of the most influential and admired Greek sculptural vases and was frequently copied in the 18th century with bronze reductions by Zoffoli and Righetti and other examples produced by Wedgwood and Coade. The present vases with their finely sculpted frieze copy the original closely with their depiction of Bacchanalian revelry with Dionysus supporting a drunken Silenus, an engraving of which was published by Giovanni Battista Piranesi of his 'Vasi, candelabra, cippi, sarcophagi, tripodi, Lucerne, ed ornamenti disegnati, pls. 109, 110' in 1778. However, other parts of their design borrow stylistically from the Medici vase which was first discovered in 1598 at the Villa Medici and then transferred in 1780 to the Uffizi. The use of bronze and marble in vases such as these is very rare, for comparison a related pair of Medici vases now in the Frick Collection by Luigi Valadier (1726-1785) for Madame du Barry employ the use of porphyry, gilt bronze and marble. However, the present combination was more common for the use of urns and candelabra in the Louis XVI period and echo the work of the celebrated bronzier Francois Remond and in particular a pair of four-light candelabra with bronze wrapped bodies decorated with a classical procession attributed to him, sold by Christie's, The Alexander Collection, New York, 30th April 1999, lot 135. A similar vase, just in gilt bronze and catalogued as Regency, with almost identical mounts, was sold by Sotheby's, The Collection of Mr & Mrs Stephen C. Hilbert: Important French and English Furniture, 24th May 2007, lot 59 and a Louis XVI vase in bleu turquin with similar mounts but no Bacchanalian frieze was also sold by Sotheby's, Property from the Estate of Ogden Phipps, 19th October 2002, lot 128.
λ A MIXED LOT 19TH CENTURY AND LATER including: a Bidri ware baluster vase, a tortoiseshell clutch bag, a Chinese jade and bronze mounted small mirror, a pottery box and cover, inscribed 'Greta', a French 'Pompeia' scent bottle and three porcelain boxes and covers (11) 22,2cm (max) PROVENANCE The late Greta Morrison, widow of Bryan Morrison.
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