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Chantilly Chinaman Perfume Burner Group
Circa 1735-40.
An extremely rare Chantilly Chinaman Perfume Burner Group, the seated
sage wearing a carefully modelled green bordered gown painted with sprigs
and sprays of oriental flowering plants, birds and insects, he sits on a cushion tied together with rope as a parcel, next to him at his back a similarly tied yellow cushion, the side with circular floral reserves, the top pierced with flower heads and leaf forms.
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Bow Apple Box and Cover
Circa 1755.
An extremely rare Bow Apple Box and Cover, beautifully naturalistically modelled, painted in tones of green, yellow, puce and brown the upper half forming the cover and applied with a twisted twig handle together with four leaves.
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Sèvres Biscuit models of Lions
c. 1818 – 1820
Pair Sèvres Biscuit models of Lions supporting gilt-white reticulated Baskets (Lions ‘canéphores’) after a model by Jean-Charles-Nicholas Brachard l'ainé, after a drawing by Fragonard.
Each lion modelled as a prowling lion with embroidered saddle cloth, it’s back fitted with a reticulated circular basket, on an original rectangular “tôle-peinte” base painted as faux-siena marble.
