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Lot 262
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.
Lot 406
A COLLECTION OF ELEVEN WINE COASTERS EARLY 19TH CENTURY AND LATER with five mahogany examples, comprising: two pairs and a single small coaster and six in papier-mache, comprising: a pair of chinoisere decorated examples, a pair with a band of Greek key decoration and two singles (11) 14.5cm diameter (max)
Lot 170
A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING ROOM URNS AND PEDESTALS IN THE MANNER OF GILLOWS c.1775-80 each urn of campana shape, with lobed, fluted and ribbed decoration, the lid with a fir cone finial revealing a later lined interior, with gilt brass handles and gilded taps, the pedestals with crossbanded tops, the fronts with stained sycamore banding and inlaid with boxwood stringing, one with a hinged door with false drawer fronts revealing a vacant interior, the other with a top drawer to hold water to wash glasses, above a cupboard originally with a chamber pot and a base drawer for wine bottles, now lacking original linings (2) 182cm high, 50cm wide, 48cm deep PROVENANCE With Denys Wrey Ltd., 45 Sloane Street, London, S.W.1 and sold to G. E. J. Deering Esq. of Ormskirk, Lancashire on the 15th January 1969 for £1,400. LITERATURE Susan E. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 17301840, vol.1, p.315, pl.356, for a similar pair of dining room pedestals and vases with cone finials, attributed to Gillows made for John Bell of Thirsk Hall, North Yorkshire.
Lot 321
TODD WHITE (AMERICAN 1969) 'HER SATISFIELD PLACE' a limited edition hand embellished print 106/195, depicting a female figure drinking wine, signed bottom right, with certificate, framed, approximate sizes: image 50cm x 76cm, frame 75cm x 101cm (condition:- print and frame in good condition)
Lot 640
THREE APPRENTICE PIECES, including a carved two piece cabinet, approximately 42cm high x 23cm wide x 20cm deep (in need of restoration) with a carved cabinet having drop front and a carved dressing table having mirror on stand over cupboard, also including a box of microscope slides and three bottles of wine
Lot 646
FOUR BOXES AND LOOSE CERAMICS AND GLASSWARE, including Royal Doulton 'Vanborough' No.H4992 part tea service, Royal Doulton tapestry TC1024 part tea service, a Wedgwood Swallow part tea service and a Suez majolica blue jardiniere, approximately 31cm high, also including two glass jelly moulds, a glass butter dish and cover, miscellaneous wine glasses, etc
Lot 756
A QUANTITY OF VICTORIAN AND LATER BLUE AND WHITE PRINTED POTTERY, including sauce tureens, wash jugs, a chamber pot, tureen and cover and a rectangular twin handled planter a.f. (18) Condition Report Large platter minor chips to rim. Small tureen has cracks and old repairs. Larger tureen chip to rim and crazing. Oblong planter has several cracks.Windsor Castle plate has crack and old repair. Gravy boat chip to base. Both jug and bow sets have cracks, old repairs and/or crazing. Wood octagonal bowl damage to rim. Davenport bow chip to rim, hairlines to base. Small jug crack to base. Covered dish crack to lid and crazing. Middleport chamber pot crazing to glazing. Wine spout jug crack to spout
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