Lot 81
A Louis XV St Cloud porcelain cane handle with enamelled gold vinaigrette mount unmarked apart from later French import marks
9 July 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,500 inc. premium
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A Louis XV St Cloud porcelain cane handle with enamelled gold vinaigrette mount
unmarked apart from later French import marks
The handle formed as a fish's head painted with a man dancing below Japanese-style flowers and entitled "Les pas son perdu," the gold hinged cover formed in a naturalistic way with three shells in pale pink enamel enclosing green enamelled acanthus leaves opening to reveal a grille pierced with mythical fish, in a green shagreen carrying case, height 8cm.
The handle formed as a fish's head painted with a man dancing below Japanese-style flowers and entitled "Les pas son perdu," the gold hinged cover formed in a naturalistic way with three shells in pale pink enamel enclosing green enamelled acanthus leaves opening to reveal a grille pierced with mythical fish, in a green shagreen carrying case, height 8cm.
Footnotes
A similar cane handle is kept at the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, gift of Mme Délicourt in memory of her brother M.Thierry 1937, inv 33276. Published in the exhibition cataloge Discovery the secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at The Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca.1690-1766, July - October 1999, cat.149, p 211.
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