Ghislaine Howard
Sale Coordinator
The Property of a Beverly Hills Private Collector
Lot 130*
A Saint-Cloud porcelain cane handle modelled as a bird's head, circa 1730-50
7 December 2022, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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Sophie von der Goltz
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Nette Megens
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Sebastian Kuhn
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A Saint-Cloud porcelain cane handle modelled as a bird's head, circa 1730-50
The beak and face decorated in yellow, green and blue enamels, a dancing figure on the back of the cane with an inscription 'tu est content de ton sort' [you are happy with your lot] in iron red, the sides with sprays of kakiemon flowers in polychrome colours, set with a metal mount onto a wooden cane, mounted on a Malacca cane with metal collar and ferrule, the handle: 11.2cm wide; the full cane: 94cm long
Footnotes
Provenance:
Millon et Ass., 22 December 2006, lot 234;
Gilbert Segas, Passage Jouffroy, Paris, 2010
Two cane handles of simpler shapes without the bird's head and attributed to Chantilly and decorated with similar figures and inscriptions in iron-red are in the collection of the British Museum, London, illustrated by Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain - A catalogue of the British Museum Collection (1994), nos. 53 and 54. Another comparable cane with inscription and iron-red figure is illustrated in B. Rondot (ed.), Discovering the secrets of soft-paste porcelain at the Saint-Cloud manufactory, circa 1690-1766, cat. no. 149. Another cane handle with the same figure and different motto was previously in the collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone, sold by Christie's, 21 March 1991, lot 378 (here catalogued as Villeroy).
