- CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN MAZARINChinese
CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN MAZARINChinese Export Blue and White Porcelain Mazarin , 18th c., Qianlong, decorated with a central hunt scene, dia. 13 7/8 in . Provenance: Dannette Darrow Antiques, Binghampton, NY, 2003
- Twenty-Piece Chinese Mazarin Blue
Twenty-Piece Chinese Mazarin Blue and Gilt Porcelain Teaset, 19th century, composed of seven tea cups, h. 3", dia. 1-3/4", seven saucers, two waste bowls, teapot and cover, h. 5", creamer and cover, and two spoon rests, all glazed in monochrome mazarin blue with gilt peony decoration.
- Chinese "Mazarine" Blue Porcelain
Chinese "Mazarine" Blue Porcelain Tea Bowl and Cover, 18th century, now mounted for use as a perfumer, the U-shaped tea bowl and footed cover glazed in mazarine blue with gilt decoration of mons, now mounted in gilt-metal mounts, h. 6-1/4".
- Fine, Large and Rare Paris Porcelain
Fine, Large and Rare Paris Porcelain Garniture Vase, third quarter 19th century, the richly gilded and polychromed vase of royal blue ground in the Louis XVI taste, the facade with a large gilt-framed oval reserve of summer flowers, the reverse with an elaborately gilt-framed figural reserve of "Whisperings of Love" featuring two maidens and a mischievous Cupid aiming his bow, the base with pseudo-Sevres marks in underglaze blue, the lip and waisted neck with old professional repairs, h. 29-1/8".
- Pair of Chinese Mazarin Blue and
Pair of Chinese Mazarin Blue and Famille Verte Porcelain Vases, 19th century, now mounted as lamps, each of wide baluster form with famille verte reserve panels depicting scholars and flowers all on a Mazarin blue ground, on custom wooden stands and painted exterior wiring by Dennis Poupart, not drilled, h. 22-1/2".
- Pair of Paris Porcelain Lion-Masque-Handled
Pair of Paris Porcelain Lion-Masque-Handled Garniture Vases, first quarter 19th century, in the neoclassical style, each facade with a polychromed figural reserve of sailors, ladies and vessels on a coast, the reverses with circular rouletted reserves of Roman helmets, h. 12", w. 7", d. 3-1/2".
- French Porcelain Ram's-Masque-Handled
French Porcelain Ram's-Masque-Handled Covered Garniture Vase, first quarter 20th century, with claret banding in the Louis XVI style, the facade centered with a polychromed spray of summer flowers, the reverse centered with a gilded musical trophee, now mounted as a table lamp on a gilt-brass base, h. 14-3/4".
- Good Pair of Porcelain Garniture
Good Pair of Porcelain Garniture Busts, of respectively, a Mandarin and a Mandarine in court dress, c. 1900.
- CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN FAMILLE
CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN FAMILLE ROSE MAZARIN AND TWO BLUE AND WHITE MAZARINS The one circular with floral clusters the center with iron disc on tripod feet the two oval graduated and with floral stalks; 12 3/4 and 14 1/4 in. 14 in. diam.
- Eight-Piece "Sevres"-Style Porcelain
Eight-Piece "Sevres"-Style Porcelain Cabaret a Deux, fourth quarter 19th century, in the First Empire style, comprised of a circular two-handled tray with a large vignette of Emperor Napoleon I and the Empress Marie-Louise with the infant King of Rome, signed "Maglin", dia. 15-1/4", a coffeepot with a reserve of Napoleon I and Marie-Louise, initialed "M" at left, h. 7", a covered two-handled sugar basin with a facade vignette of a galants couple and a reserve of a neoclassical garden building, also initialed "M", h. 6", a cream pitcher with a reserve of a mounted Emperor Napoleon I on a battlefield, h. 5-1/8", a pair of portrait coffee cups, one with a portrait of the Empress Josephine, the other with the likeness of the Empress Marie-Louise, h. 4-1/8", and a pair of matching coffee saucers with polychromed military trophees, dia. 5-1/2", all on claret grounds, each piece marked with a pseudo-Sevres "Manufacture Imperiale de Sevres" mark in overglaze gold.
- Large Franco-Bohemian Richly Gilded
Large Franco-Bohemian Richly Gilded Biscuit and Porcelain Garniture Vase, third quarter 19th century, of flared form in the rococo taste, at the base, a polychromed biscuit porcelain galants couple inspecting a bird's nest, the facade of the vase with a polychromed provincial landscape, signed on the base in overglaze rouge de fer "PM.121" in an attenuated lozenge, perhaps the von Portheim Manufactory, Chodau, h. 13-1/2", w. 15-1/2", d. 8".
- French Three-Piece Gilt-Brass and
French Three-Piece Gilt-Brass and Gilt-Spelter-Mounted Sevres-Style Porcelain Mantel Garniture, fourth quarter 19th century, in the Louis XVI taste, the set comprised of an oblong mantel clock with a vasiform gilt-metal-mounted bleu celeste-ground finial and multiple bleu celeste-ground porcelain plaques, h. 21-1/2", w. 16", d. 5-1/2", and a pair of matching vasiform gilt-metal-mounted bleu-celeste porcelain five-light candelabra, h. 21", w. 8-1/2".
- Pair of French Ormolu-Mounted Bleu
Pair of French Ormolu-Mounted Bleu Celeste Porcelain Covered Two-Handled Garniture Vases, fourth quarter 19th century, in the Louis XVI Sevres style, each facade centered with an oval reserve of frolicking putti allegorical of , respectively, "Art" and "Science", in the manner of Francois Boucher (French, 1703-1770), the square ormolu bases set with four polychromed plaques in the aprons, each base impressed on the reverse "Ph. Mourey" for bronzier Phillipe Mourey (French, 1840-1910), the handles modeled as garlanded female masques, the tall ormolu covers of attenuated bell form, h. 14-1/4", w. 5". Provenance: The estate of Dr. J. A. Hale, Holly Springs, Mississippi.
- Fine Pair of Continental Marbled-Ground
Fine Pair of Continental Marbled-Ground Porcelain Garniture Vases, first quarter 19th century, now with the original porcelain bases and covers removed and replaced, respectively, with gilt-brass pedestal bases of cylindrical section and large everted collars, the facades with portraits of scantily draped pensive beauties in bed, the reverses with well-painted reserves of flower baskets on marble shelves, one of which has tipped over, each example fitted with large gilt-brass handles having lower terminals modeled as butterfly-winged female masques, h. 21", w. 15".
- SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN AND GILT
SEVRES STYLE PORCELAIN AND GILT BRONZE HISTORICAL FIGURES PORTRAIT LIDDED VASE 18 ½" Conical porcelain vase with ormolu mounts and fitted domed porcelain lid with baluster finial, hand decorated in polychrome with gilt highlights on royal blue background, depicting within reserves famous historical figures: on the vase - Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, and Marie-Antoinette after painting by Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty (1775); on the lid - Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and Madame (Duchesse d'Orléans) Princess Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate.
- Fine Three-Piece French Gilt-Bronze
Fine Three-Piece French Gilt-Bronze and Porcelain Mantel Garniture, in the Louis XVI style, produced for Tiffany and Company, New York, and so marked, the porcelain elements of bleu celeste ground and decorated with allegorical figures of putti in the Sevres style, the set consisting of a tall mantel clock surmounted by the seated figure of a putto reading and supported on four monopodal sphinxes of gilt bronze, h. 21", w. 11", d. 8", and a pair of six-light candelabra en suite, each candlesocket with a detachable gilt-bronze bobeche, h. 24".
- A Porcelain and Gilt Metal Tazza
A Porcelain and Gilt Metal Tazza Marked on the underside "hand painted" and with an insignia similar to a Sevres mark and "France", approx. 10"D x 7-1/2"H. Transfer and hand painted decorations with a romantic scene after Fragonard the center of the bowl surrounded by a gilt border, and with floral sprays on the base.
- A Paris (La Courtille) porcelain
A Paris (La Courtille) porcelain mug, circa 1800, finely enamelled with a bouquet of flowers against a gilt diagonal ground, 8cm high/see illustration
- Small Pair of P. M. de Mavaleix,
Small Pair of P. M. de Mavaleix, Limoges, Gilt-Brass-Mounted Blanc-de-Chine Porcelain Garniture Vases, 1908-1914, of tapered square section, each example fully marked in green underglaze transfer-print on the base, h. 7", w. 3".
- Three-Piece Bernardaud Freres,
Three-Piece Bernardaud Freres, Limoges, Porcelain Mantel Garniture, third quarter 19th century, in the rococo taste, the two flanking vases now mounted as table lamps on oval stepped white bases, the central corbeille in its original form, the foot marked "B. Fres. - 115" impressed underglaze, lamps h. 18-1/2", w. 7-1/2", d. 6", corbeille h. 8", w. 11-1/4", d. 6".
- A Chinese Export Neoclassical Porcelain
A Chinese Export Neoclassical Porcelain Platter and Mazarine circa 1800 having a wide cobalt blue border with gilt decoration of foliate vines intersected by oval reserves with a diamond motif. Height 2 x width 15 1/2 x depth 13 inches.
- Monumental Continental Gilt-Brass-Mounted
Monumental Continental Gilt-Brass-Mounted Porcelain Covered Garniture Vase, fourth quarter 19th century, in the Louis XVI Sevres taste, the pyriform body with a well-painted panoramic galants scene featuring a birdseller and ladies of fashion in a park, accompanied by a lamb and a dog, the reserve signed "H. Poitevin", the gilt-brass cover with a large well-modeled finial of Eros Marino, h. 37", w. 14".
- Large Gilt-Brass-Mounted Porcelain
Large Gilt-Brass-Mounted Porcelain Covered Garniture Vase, fourth quarter 19th century, of attenuated pyriform in the Sevres Louis XVI taste, with bleu du Roi ground, the facade with a large galants reserve in the manner of Francois Boucher (French, 1703-1770), the reverse with a bucolic river landscape in the Impressionist style, signed "Eug. Carel", h. 27-1/2".
- French Marseille Faience Chinoiserie
French Marseille Faience Chinoiserie Plate late 18th century 9.8" (diameter) 25cm (diameter) painted VP mark in brown
- A Sevres Style Hand-Painted Cabinet
A Sevres Style Hand-Painted Cabinet Plate of Marie de' Médici after Frans Pourbus Jr. Late 19th Century. The round porcelain plate with scalloped gilt edge cobalt border hand painted with gilt foliate motif; a central reserve featuring a minute hand-painted portrait of the Queen Consort of France Maria de' Medici (1575-1642). Marked with overglaze blue Sevres style mark on the bottom. Measures apprx. 1"T x 10"D at the widest point.
- Brass-Mounted Paris Porcelain Tall-Neck
Brass-Mounted Paris Porcelain Tall-Neck Garniture Vase, third quarter 19th century, now presented as a table lamp, the two bronze-patinated handle terminals modeled as female masques, fitted with a spherical crystal finial, h. 32", dia. 9-1/2".
- Pair of Paris Porcelain White-and-Gold
Pair of Paris Porcelain White-and-Gold Portrait Garniture Vases, third quarter 19th century, each of baluster form and featuring, respectively, a portrait of the Princesse de Lamballe and Queen Marie Antoinette, h. 12-3/4".
- Pair of French Gilt-Brass-Mounted
Pair of French Gilt-Brass-Mounted Porcelain Garniture Vases, first quarter 20th century, in the Sevres taste, of small, two-handled, covered form with rose Pompadour grounds, each facade with a shield-form reserve featuring a floral spray and a butterfly, the reverses with neoclassical "Eros" reserves, the handles of leonine masque form with pendant oblong links, h. 13".
- Fine Paris Porcelain Paneled, Two-Handled
Fine Paris Porcelain Paneled, Two-Handled Garniture Vase-On-Pedestal, second quarter 19th century, the handles matte gilded Bacchic masques separating a frieze of relief multi-colored "jewels", the body of the vase polychromed with alternating vertical bands of summer flowers alternating with jeweled gilt Gothic lancet arches on a Pompeian ground, the pedestal with paired jewel-painted gilt lancet arches on a Pompeian orange ground, h. 13-1/4".
- Meissen Marcolini Period Pale Blue
Meissen Marcolini Period Pale Blue and White Biscuit Porcelain Portrait Medallion of the Young Napoleon Bonaparte, ca. 1800, with impressed mark on the reverse basal edge, dia. 3-1/2".
- Set of Twelve Limoges Porcelain
Set of Twelve Limoges Porcelain "Portrait" Dessert Plates, with bleu celeste borders in the Sevres style, featuring portraits of the ladies and marshals of the Napoleonic court plus Emperor Napoleon I and the Empress Josephine, the portrait centers variously signed Daron, Dragny and Marn, the reverses marked in underglaze green and overglaze blue, dia. 9-1/8".
- Two Paris Porcelain Graduated Chargers,
Two Paris Porcelain Graduated Chargers, fourth quarter 18th century, by the Queen's Factory in floral decor, each example marked with a crowned A in overglaze rouge de fer, each charger centered with a spray of violas, the borders in red rose blooms and yellow rose sprays, dia. 11" and 12".
- Monumental French Brass-Mounted
Monumental French Brass-Mounted Porcelain Centerpiece Bowl, fourth quarter 19th century, of oval form in the Louis XVI Sevres style, the porcelain bowl of bleu du Roi ground with the facade bearing a richly gilded and polychromed galants reserve in the manner of Watteau, the reverse with a view of distant mountains beyond a sylvan glade, the interior of the foot with a pseudo-Sevres interlaced L's mark in blue, h. 18-1/2", w. 22", d. 12-1/2".
- Pair of Paris Porcelain Double
Pair of Paris Porcelain Double Masque-Handled Garniture Vases, second quarter 19th century, of campana form, the upper bodies with cobalt-blue grounds having rural architectural vignettes on the facades, the lower bodies and feet glazed in melon and parcel-gilt, h. 10", dia. 7-1/2".
- Large Franco-Bohemian Three-Piece
Large Franco-Bohemian Three-Piece Glazed and Parcel-Gilt Reticulated Porcelain and Biscuit Mantel Garniture, third quarter 19th century, in the rococo taste, the set comprised of a central two-handled ovoid bowl with an 18th-century-style biscuit galant and his lady, h. 11-1/2", w. 16", d. 8", and a pair of matching vases, one with a galant and the other with a coy 18th-century-style lady of fashion, h. 15", w. 12", d. 8", the facades of each piece with interlaced gilded reticulation above a boldly painted bouquet of summer flowers.
- Sevres-Style Glazed and Biscuit
Sevres-Style Glazed and Biscuit Porcelain Mantel Clock, fourth quarter 19th century, in the late Louis XVI style, featuring a Muse playing with a gilded brass poodle while riding in a swan chariot, the enamel dial signed "Bourret a Paris" (for Firminy Bourret, active ca. 1865-1900), the interior of the beau bleu-glazed plinth with pseudo-Sevres interlaced L's in blue, h. 10-1/2", w. 9", d. 3-1/4".