Beschreibung:

An important garniture of three Louis XV ormolu mounted Chinese powder-blue and gilt porcelain vasesThe porcelain Kangxi (1654-1722), the mounts mid-18th century
The slender baluster bodies elegantly formed with rounded shoulders, decorated with gilded floral, bird and landscape designs, the mounts cast with elaborate fruiting acanthus and rocaille decoration, the scrolling handles with bull rushes and acanthus foliage, on scrolling pierced bases, the underside with a collection label inscribed Collection Jacques Guerlain, the two ewers each with a blue-bordered label numbered in black ink, 1726, and with remnants of a circular collection unidentifiable, the central vase: 17.5cm wide, 13cm deep, 29.5cm high, (6 1/2in wide, 5in deep, 11in high); the ewers: 14cm wide, 10.5cm deep, 30.5cm high (5 1/2 wide, 4in deep, 12in high) (3)Footnotes清康熙 灑藍釉描金花鳥紋觀音瓶(嵌18世紀中期鎏金銅飾)一組三件
Provenance
Collection of Jacques Guerlain;
Galerie J. Kugel, Paris, 21 February 1997.
來源
Collection Jacques Guerlain. 舊藏;
Galerie J.Kugel，巴黎，1997年2月21日.
Jacques Guerlain (1874-1963)
This superb Louis XV ormolu-mounted garniture was one of the treasured and important lots of the celebrated Jacques Guerlain Collection. The creator of some of the most iconic perfume scents such as Shalimar, Mitsouko and l'Heure Bleue, Guerlain was also a great collector and connoisseur of oriental art and particularly ormolu-mounted porcelain objects. His superlative collection adorned the grand salons of his apartment of parc Monceau and his house in the Loiret. Only the best was good enough for Jacques Guerlain. Testimony of this was the sale held on 24 November 2018, where Maître Guillaume Cornet sold in Orléans a selection of Guerlain's porcelain and Delft collection. Among which, a rare Régence ormolu-mounted pair of celadon vases sold for €206.400 (incl. buyers premium), and a pair of Louis XV ormolu-mounted cracqueled celadon baluster-shaped vases sold for €109.200 (incl. buyers premium).Saleroom noticesPlease note, the porcelain Kangxi (1662-1722), the mounts mid-18th century.