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拍品专文
The union of fine porcelain with exquisite gilt-bronze mounts was extremely fashionable from the early 1760s through the 1780s. In Paris, this was facilitated by savvy and well-connected merchants known as the marchand-merciers. The marchand-merciers worked with wealthy and fashionable clients to discover their wants or needs for décor and then facilitated the creation of such pieces amongst makers within the various guilds, and from within their own stock.
After falling out of fashion with the fall of the monarchy, the reintroduction of the monarchy and the ancien régime reignited the taste for these types of nostalgic objets d’art. The present lot is one such objet, utilizing a rococo revival aesthetic with draped garlands of flowers, twisting stems and musical cherubs blending seamlessly into scrolling acanthus leaf handles. The Paris porcelain body blushes pink beneath the gleaming mounts, possibly as an attempt to recreate the dreamy fond rose ground color introduced by the Sèvres factory in 1758.
After falling out of fashion with the fall of the monarchy, the reintroduction of the monarchy and the ancien régime reignited the taste for these types of nostalgic objets d’art. The present lot is one such objet, utilizing a rococo revival aesthetic with draped garlands of flowers, twisting stems and musical cherubs blending seamlessly into scrolling acanthus leaf handles. The Paris porcelain body blushes pink beneath the gleaming mounts, possibly as an attempt to recreate the dreamy fond rose ground color introduced by the Sèvres factory in 1758.