细节 A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED RED JAPANESE LACQUER POTS-POURRISCIRCA 1775-85, THE LACQUER EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURYEach with a cover surmounted by a tabouret with tasselled finial on a black lacquer roundel enriched with gold maki-e trees and an oar surrounded by a raised pierced border, the moulded rim above a pierced frieze mounted with Bacchus masks issuing handles, the body decorated with a fir branch, a hat and a fan, with a gadrooned waist terminating in a berry boss, supported on four legs headed by scrolls and terminating in goat hooves on a circular stiff leaf-moulded plinth centred by a flowerhead, on a white marble base10 1/2 in. (26.5 cm.) high; 6 3/4 in. (17.5 cm.) wide 来源 Collection of Madame de Polès; Galerie Jean Charpentier, Me Etienne Ader, Paris, 17 November 1936, lot 156, illustrated pl. XXXIII. 出版 COMPARATIVE LITERATUREG. de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, Volume I, London, 2009, p. 343-345, cat. n° 77. 注意事项 This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.The Bacchic mask handle mounts selected by the marchand-mercier for these prized lacquer pot-pourri vases are the same model found on a pair of green ground Sevres porcelain vases, dated 1788 now in the British Royal Collection [RCIN 280]. There was a strong relationship between the Sevres porcelain factory, bronziers such as Duplessis and Thomire, and the marchand-merciers commissioning works for their clients. Whilst gilt-bronze mounted European porcelain was relatively common amongst 18th century collectors, mounted lacquer objects were rarer, and more prized, as European craftsman had not been able to master the art of lacquering to the same standard. Thus these exotic lacquer objects had to be imported, with a preference for the precision of Japanese lacquer. In Paris this fashion for collecting lacquer objects began in the second quarter of the 18th century but continued to delight collectors in to the 21st century. A pair of related pot-pourri vases, also with finials in the form of taborets and goat monopodia were sold from the collection of the Marquise de Ganay, née Ridgway, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Me F. Lair-Dubreuil, 8-10 May 1922. Undoubtedly the most famous 18th century collection of Japanese lacquer objects was that of Queen Marie-Antoinette who inherited it from her mother Empress Marie-Thérèse of Austria. MADAME DE POLES Madame de Polès' established and impressive collection of 18th century French furniture, objets d’art and paintings which were dispersed at two significant sales at Galerie Georges Petit in 1927 and at the Galerie Charpentier in 1936. Major works by Fragonard, Hubert Robert or Boucher were sold alongside masterpieces by the greatest French ébénistes of the 18th century including André-Charles Boulle, Martin Carlin, Jean-Henri Riesener and David Roentgen. Several of these works are held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.