PAIR OF CELADON porcelain baluster-shaped VASES decorated wi - Lot 377

PAIR OF CELADON porcelain baluster-shaped VASES decorated with geometric motifs, flowers and foliage. China, Qianlong period (1736-1795) Chased and gilded bronze mounts with foliage decoration. On a Louis XV period openwork base. Height: 29 cm Bibliography. F. Scheurleer, Porcelaines chinoises et japonaises en versions européennes, Braunschweig 1980; p. 90 ff and p. 329 (for similar examples) F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. II, Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.p. 1966, 434, fig. 244 P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection. Catalog of Furniture, London 1956; no. 28. Note. A similar pair of bronze-mounted celadon vases was acquired by S. Fogg in 1818 for King George IV in Paris and is now in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace, London. Another pair is in the collections of the Victoria Albert Museum, London. Another celadon vase, attributed to J.C. Duplessis. Duplessis, is part of the Wallace Collection in London (inventory number F 113) and is illustrated in: P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection. Catalog of Furniture, London 1956; no. 281.