SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF PIERRE GOUTHIERE

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND MARBLE-MOUNTED POWDER BLUE PARIS PORCELAIN EWERS
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF PIERRE GOUTHIERE
Each with everted rim with mask-cast spout, the scrolling foliate handle surmounted by a putto climbing the horns of a ram, the baluster-shape porcelain body on a tripod base with white marble plinth, one putto reattached, one porcelain body with repair to neck
16 ½ in. (42 cm.) and 16 in. (41 cm.) high

Provenance

Possibly: anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1993, lot 233.

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Lot Essay

The design of these ewers relates to the oeuvre of the famous bronzier Pierre Gouthière (1732-1813) and work executed by him for the duc d’Aumont. A drawing of lot 114 in the catalogue of the sale of the collection of the duc d’Aumont in 1782 in the Municipal Library, Besançon, shows a Japanese celadon vase mounted with a crouching mermaid and a closely related satyr mask on the ormolu lip, see H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. II, Munich 1989, p. 579, fig. 18. Figure 19 shows another vase with similar paw feet purchased at that sale for Marie-Antoinette.

A single Louis XVI ewer of this model, the porcelain marked for Locré, was sold Christie’s London, December 1, 2003, lot 89

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