CIRCA 1745-50

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND MEISSEN PORCELAIN CENTREPIECE
CIRCA 1745-50
The baluster vase and cover painted with a wolves in a forest landscape and with flowers, the asymmetrical pierced rock work base incorperating a goat, a turkey and a wolf, minor overpainting and restoration
10 in. (25 cm.) high; 7 in. (19 cm.) wide; 5½ in. (14 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This exquisite Louis XV ormolu and Meissen porcelain vase 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.).

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