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拍品专文
This exquisite Louis XV ormolu and Meissen porcelain garniture is a splendid example of the fashion for pittoresque ormolu-mounted objets, combining ormolu with precious materials, which were invented and designed by marchand-merciers. These powerful Paris dealers, who were based near their elegant clièntele, imported exotic porcelain and lacquer, Sèvres and Meissen porcelain, marble, hardstones and pietra dura, which they incorporated in luxurious and fanciful objets in the latest fashion. Lazare Duvaux was one of the most successful of these dealers, and his Livre Journal compiled between 1749 and 1758, lists various similar items in porcelaine de Saxe supplied to his most important clients including the Marquise de Pompadour (L. Courajod, Livre Journal de Lazare Duvaux 1748-1758, Paris, 1873, 2 vols.).
Garnitures consisting of three ormolu-mounted vases were among the most expensive wares supplied by Duvaux, but the present example is particularly fine due to the quality of the decoration to the porcelain and that of the mounts. Particularly noteworthy is the stalacmite, or dripping rockwork motif, which also appears on the celebrated bassin executed by Jean-Claude Duplessis, which was presented by Louis XV to the Sultan of Turkey in 1742 (P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Francais du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 23, fig. 9)
Garnitures consisting of three ormolu-mounted vases were among the most expensive wares supplied by Duvaux, but the present example is particularly fine due to the quality of the decoration to the porcelain and that of the mounts. Particularly noteworthy is the stalacmite, or dripping rockwork motif, which also appears on the celebrated bassin executed by Jean-Claude Duplessis, which was presented by Louis XV to the Sultan of Turkey in 1742 (P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Francais du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 23, fig. 9)