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A pair of mid 19th century French gilt bronze mounted 'bleu nuit' ground porcelain vases and covers in the Louis XVI style, the designs after models by Jean Dulac retailed by Louis Auguste Alfred Beurdeley, Paris
17 – 18 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £12,562.50 inc. premium
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A pair of mid 19th century French gilt bronze mounted 'bleu nuit' ground porcelain vases and covers
in the Louis XVI style, the designs after models by Jean Dulac retailed by Louis Auguste Alfred Beurdeley, Paris
the domed lids with a berried finials above a pierced Vitruvian scrolling friezes, the ovoid bodies with swagged lions pelts united by laurel wreaths and lion-mask handles, the spreading foliate pedestal feet on a Greek-key panelled square bases, one mount inscribed BY,41cmh high . (2)
the domed lids with a berried finials above a pierced Vitruvian scrolling friezes, the ovoid bodies with swagged lions pelts united by laurel wreaths and lion-mask handles, the spreading foliate pedestal feet on a Greek-key panelled square bases, one mount inscribed BY,41cmh high . (2)
Footnotes
The model of these vases can be found in the Beurdeley sale in 1901, 2-3 April: Catalogue of Furniture and Works of Art, 15th Beurdeley sale, under the lot number 6, described as follows: Paire de cassolettes avec couvercles en porcelaine émaillée bleu, montées en bronze ciselé et doré, à décor de mufles de lions, draperies et gorge ajourée. Haut. 40 cent.
In the Louis XVI period, the marchand-mercier Jean Dulac specialised in the commercialisation of Sèvres porcelain and created the original design replicated on these vases. He was appointed marchand privilégié du Roi on 16 May 1753 and resided on the rue Saint Honoré where he died in 1786.