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The Robert Compton Jones Collection — Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.

Auction House:Leonard Joel Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:82
Sale Title:The Robert Compton Jones CollectionLots with images:82
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:57
Date:30-May-2023
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A Louis XV carved and giltwood mirror, the original plate in a moulded frame with C-scroll and rocaille cresting, decorated in original cream and gilt, height 120 cm, width 62 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Louis XV giltwood console table, in the manner of Nicolas Pineau, the shaped green marble top above a carved frieze centred by a foliate drop within C-curved scrolls and scrolling acanthus and flowers, the vigorously carved scrolling cabriole legs terminating in foliate scroll toes and united by a rocaille stretcher, height 95 cm, width 165 cm, depth 67 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Louis XV beechwood fauteuil a La Reine by Nicolas Blanchard, the moulded cartouche shaped back with flower head cresting above a pair of outswept scrolled arms and padded seat on cabriole legs with scroll toes and carved apron, upholstered in blue and silver flower sprigged brocade, Nicolas Blanchard, maitre en 1738. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Louis XV beechwood fauteuil a La Reine by Jean-Baptiste Gourdin, the moulded cartouche shaped back with flower head cresting above a pair of outswept scrolled arms and padded seat on cabriole legs with foliate and cabochon carved toes and flower carved apron, upholstered in blue and silver flower sprigged brocade, Jean-Baptiste Gourdin, maitre en 1748. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Louis XV kingwood, tulipwood and marquetry writing/tric-trac table, the reversible leather lined top with ormolu gallery and baize underside opening to reveal an ebony and inlaid bone backgammon board, above two end drawers on ormolu mounted cabriole legs inlaid throughout with flower sprays and foliate decoration on quarter veneers, height 78 cm, width 81 cm, depth 58 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Louis XV fruitwood canape en corbeille, the carved and moulded frame with flowerhead cresting, padded armrests and seat above a shaped apron centred with flower heads on cabriole legs, width 155 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Louis XV kingwood and tulipwood marquetry bombe commode, the shaped breccia marble top above two long drawers inlaid 'Sans traverse' with a spray of roses in marquetry framed by ormolu mounts on cabriole legs with foliate and cabochon ormolu chutes and sabots, height 84 cm, width 112 cm, depth 51 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Louis XVI brass mounted mahogany bouillotte table, having a pierced brass three quarter gallery above white marble top, having two frieze drawers and two slides on tapering fluted legs with castors, height 72 cm, diameter 66 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection, condition: marble has been cracked and repaired, losses to brass inlay, overall wear and tear to mahogany finish, loose joints.
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A Charles II carved and giltwood looking glass, the mottled plate in a frame composed of scrolls, height 61 cm, width 51 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A George II solid mahogany open armchair, the swept top rail above a pierced vase shaped splat flanked by scrolled and shaped arms, the needlework drop-in seat on square chamfered legs joined by an H-stretcher. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A pair of brass table lamps, in the form of half reeded urns on black slate bases, height 38 cm (not including shades). Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A George II walnut wing armchair, upholstered in needlework tapestry fabric, on cabriole front legs terminating in pad feet, height 109 cm, width 85 cm, depth 65 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A George III Harewood, sycamore, burr yew and marquetry pembroke table, possibly by Ince and Mayhew, the rectangular twin-flap top inlaid with a burr yew central oval within a pearled border and garland, the flaps and real and false end drawers with yew ovals and pearled swags, the drawer fitted with leather lined writing surface and a pen tray, on square tapering legs with brass castors, height 72.5 cm, width 80 cm (extended), depth 61 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection. Other Notes: Its…
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A Scottish George III elbow chair, the shaped top rail with a vase shaped pierced splat carved with thistles, the dished padded seat on rounded rectangular legs joined by an H-stretcher. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A George III mahogany stool, the shaped panel seat crossbanded in kingwood on shaped and arched supports joined by turned stretchers, height 47 cm, width 56 cm, depth 41 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection. Other Notes: this stool is similar in design to that of a hall stool designed by Thomas Chippendale for Christ church College, Oxford, in 1764 for use in their library. It became a popular design with other versions known by Ince & Mayhew in 1762 and by Robert Manwaring in 1765.
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A George III oak tripod table, the circular tilt-top on turned baluster pedestal and three swept feet, height 72 cm, diameter 74 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A late George III mahogany and inlaid toilet mirror, the oval plate in shaped strut support on a rectangular base with three drawers and flanked by rosewood and lattice inlaid panels on brass claw and ball feet, height 68 cm, width 53 cm, depth 26 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A George III mahogany tub chair, the fluted armrest supports above square tapering legs with patera headers and porcelain castors, upholstered in green textured velvet, height 93 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A George III mahogany and boxwood inlaid bedside commode, the rectangular top above a tambour front and single deep drawer on swept bracket feet, with brass handles to each side, height 73.5 cm, width 56 cm, depth 43 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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Two Regency rosewood nesting tables, each with rectangular top on end supports and short turned feet, largest: height 75 cm, width 46 cm, depth 30.5 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A George IV brass mounted calamander library table, the design attributed to Gillows, the rectangular top with re-entrant corners on spindle inset end supports with beaded lozenge motif terminating in swept legs with foliate brass castors, height 73 cm, width 97 cm, depth 63 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A pair of Italian painted and parcel gilt walnut corner stools, mid 18th century, each shaped and upholstered top on four moulded cabriole legs centred with an acanthus motif, height 46 cm, width 66 cm, depth 44 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A pair of Italian giltwood candlestick lamps, with gold paper shades, height 57 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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An Italian fruitwood tub chair, last quarter 18th century, the shaped back with bead moulding on cabriole legs with a shell carved apron and shell carved toes, upholstered in burnt orange silk velvet. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A north Italian cream and polychrome painted dressing table, Genoa, mid 18th century, having central mirror flanked by wells above three drawers above the central kneehole on cabriole legs, decorated all over with blue scrolls and flower sprays and rural scenes in red monochrome, height 81 cm, width 91 cm, depth 50 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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An Italian Louis XV stool, the rectangular upholstered top above a flowerhead scroll carved apron on cabriole legs with scroll toes, decorated in white and blue, height 44 cm, width 85 cm, depth 55 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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An Italian polychrome serpentine commode, Sicily, mid 18th century, the jasper top above two drawers decorated sans traverse with a bucolic landscape scene of peasants merrymaking, within scrolls and swags, the sides with similar scenes on a dark green ground with gold painted swags, spandrels and shaped apron, standing on cabriole legs, height 100 cm, width 125 cm, depth 59 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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An Empire bergere En Gondole, with scroll carved top rail, the incised frame with reeded mouldings, with fluted horn-shaped armrest supports on turned and reeded front legs decorated in cream and gilt, upholstered in yellow and green horsehair fabric with castors. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A set of four Chinese export red lacquered nesting tables, mid 19th century, each with a rectangular top on a pierced baluster shaped end support joined by a curved stretcher decorated to the tops with junks and other water craft in gold lacquer and sprays of bamboo to each side, the largest: height 69 cm, width 50 cm, depth 30 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Victorian four fold Cordoba leather screen, the embossed panels decorated with polychrome flowers, foliage and putti on a gold ground, each panel 184 x 54 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Napoleon III brass mounted ebonised display cabinet, the moulded frieze above glazed door and sides, having four adjustable shelves, on a shaped apron with square moulded tapering feet with brass mounted headers, height 185 cm, width 115 cm, depth 49 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A tole peinte and porcelain flower six-light chandelier, the cage with scrolling leaves and tendrils set with antique white porcelain flower heads, height 75 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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Two pairs of tole peinte and porcelain flower girandoles, a pair of single-light, the other pair of twin-light all with foliate backplates issuing scrolling foliate branches set with white antique porcelain flower heads, Single-light: height 40 cm, two-light: height 52 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A pair of cut crystal two-light table chandeliers, each on a circular base rising to a baluster pedestal issuing two curved branches with star shaped drip pans and flanking a central obelisk shaped standard supporting pagoda top with crystal drops throughout, height 55 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A French gilt leather casket, dated 1617, the domed top with brass handle and hinges, decorated all over with bands of scrolls, panels of fleurs de lys, and roses and pomegranates, on brass bun feet, height 12.5 cm, width 18 cm, depth 10 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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Two carved nuts, early 19th century, one spherical souvenir of Corsica incised with a portrait of Napoleon and slave, with silver suspension chains, the other depicting a Napoleonic veteran with a hinged pack on his back, diameter of spherical nut 6 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Victorian mauchline ware snuff box, rectangular, the hinged cover set to the centre with a framed gilt metal relief of game birds, height 6 cm, width 8.7 cm, depth 1.5 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection. Other Notes: mauchline ware takes its name from the town of Mauchline in Ayrshire, Scotland. In the nineteenth century this small coastal town was home to a thriving industry producing tartan printed sycamore souvenirs such as snuff boxes, egg cups and thread-winders.
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A George III silver mustard pot and a pair of George III silver salts with two associated spoons, the octagonal mustard pot with maker's mark of Robert Hennell I, London, 1792, with pierced lattice sides and blue glass liner, the salts with maker's mark of Robert Hennell I, London, 1774, of oval outline with circular pierced motifs to the side on four claw and ball feet with blue glass liners. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A pair of south Italian coral enamelled and gilt copper urns, Trapani, late 17th/early 18th century, each bulbous urn inlaid all over with coral, on a beaded foot with a pair of enamelled scrolled handles to either side and an enamelled corona rim, the arrangement of enamel leaves, and coral flowers on spring stems issuing from an engraved circular panel, height 16.5 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection. Other Notes: Trapani, in Sicily, where the present vases were made, was a famous centre…
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A pair of north Italian polychrome decorated Majolica Mirror-Frames, 18th century, probably Le Nove Di Bassano, each moulded with an acanthus spray finial and conforming sides with a bearded mask terminal, the reverse-etched mirror plates with a lady and gentleman in courtly dress, height 70 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection. Literature: Levy, S, 'Maioliche Settecentesche Lombarde e Venete', Milan, 1962, pl. 286 and pl. 287 (similar)
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A Dutch polychrome model of a seated cat, 18th century, the seated feline in purple yellow and blue on a moulded base, height 19 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Proskau faience tureen and cover in the form of a duck, Proszkow, mid 18th century, modelled realistically with its head turned toward its tail, decorated with tawny and white plumage more heavily decorated to one side, marked cursive D.P. In manganese to base, height 18 cm, length 22 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Continental faience tureen and cover in the form of a pheasant, late 18th century, naturalistically modelled with its head turned to the side, with brown and tawny plumage, a blue neck and head with red ringed eye, the mound base moulded with a tree-stump and leaves, fleur de lys mark to base, height 30 cm, length 47 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Brussels faience game pie dish and cover in form of a rabbit, late 18th century, the sides of the tureen with reserves on the sponged-manganese ground with quatrefoil panels painted with flower bouquets, the cover surmounted with a recumbent rabbit, length 39 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection. Other Notes: similar tureens with covers were offered at Christie's Amsterdam, 27 May, 1986, lot 305, and Sotheby's New York, private Collections, 18 April 2015, lot 206
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A small Continental white porcelain figure of a seated monkey, 18th century, shown resting on his haunches, holding an apple, iron Red Crossed swords mark to underside, height 8.2 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Continental porcelain figural scent bottle, mid 18th century, in the shape of a woman in a turban, ermine trimmed coat and striped and flower head patterned skirt, tipping her tea bowl into a saucer, the flower head stopper in her turban, on a gilt metal base, height 8 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Continental porcelain figure group, mid 18th century, of a black garbed clergyman offering a bouquet to a woman in a yellow and brown patterned robe seated by a tree stump, height 16.2 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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Two similar shell-shaped porcelain tureens, probably Doccia, mid 18th century, each of irregular marine form painted in various colours on a scallop shell shaped base, height 12 cm, width 17 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Doccia porcelain group of elegant figures Making music, mid 18th century, the lady and two gentlemen in coloured clothes seated on a scrolled bench with a cherub headed stool holding sheet music on a base composed of foliate rocaille scrolls painted in colours and gilt, height 19 cm, width 21 cm, depth 16 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Vienna porcelain figurine of a woman and another figurine similar of a man, the Vienna figure circa 1744-1749, of a country woman holding a posy in a mauve apron and green skirt, impressed beehive mark to base, the man with high crowned hat, black and white cape and striped breeches, iron red mark '229' to base, height of woman 11 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A German ormolu mounted enamelled snuff box, mid 18th century, of shaped rectangular outline, painted 'In colours' to the top and sides with parrots and fruit within raised rocaille borders, height 4.5 cm, width 9 cm, depth 6.5 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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An enamelled snuff box, mid 18th century, rectangular with slightly domed cover painted with a gentleman and lady with a castle beyond, on a pink ground with white lattice, the sides with rocaille vignettes of castles in landscapes, height 3.5 cm, width 7.7 cm, depth 6 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Continental porcelain candlestick, first quarter 18th century, the shaped circular foot moulded with rocaille panels and rising to a knopped shaft and nozzle, decorated all over in gilt the panels painted in colours with 'Deutsche Blumen', height 20 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A Capodimonte (Carlo III) porcelain figure of a harvester, circa 1750, with black hat, shoes and sickle, gilt cross belt and tie to sheaf, puce and blue bordered tunic, pale yellow sheaf, incuse fleur de lys mark to underside, height 19.5 cm. Provenance: The Robert Compton Jones Collection
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A pair of Frankenthal figures of Orientals, circa 1770, probably modelled by Karl Gottlieb Luck, both wearing striped pantaloons, flower patterned robes and large hats, one playing a triangle, the other holding a bird on a perch, each on a green base with gilt scrolled borders, crowned ct monogram in underglaze blue to underside, height of tallest 12.5 cm. Other Notes: several other figures from the series are in the Pauls Collection, Basel, illustrated Dr. E. Pauls-Eisenbeiss, 'German porcelain of the…
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Two Chantilly porcelain pot-pourri vases and covers, mid 18th century, each modelled as a covered vase beside a hollow tree-stump issuing roots, the sides and pierced cover applied with flowering vines, one painted with a bird, iron red hunting horn mark to underside, width 15.5 cm. Provenance: collection Frederic Halinbourg, no. 113 and Luis d'Aguiar collection (paper labels to one), Christie's New York, the Connoisseur's eye, property of a New York Collector, 21 October 2014, lot 164
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A Nymphenburg charger from the Imperial Hofservice, circa 1760-65, painted with a bouquet of flowers and scattered flower sprays, three butterflies and a dragonfly, the lobed border with ribbed intersections with pendant gilt dots suspended from gilt scrolls within a gilt scrollwork and blue band border, impressed Bavarian shield mark, numeral '2', and 'W' to inside of footrim, diameter 35 cm. Literature: for a discussion of this service and for further examples see Ziffer, a, 'Nymphenburger Porzellan:…
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A pair of French bronze, ormolu and porcelain candlesticks, mid 18th century, each waisted socle supporting a snail and issuing a scrolling tendril with porcelain flower heads, foliage and a leaf and flower head socket, height 14 cm
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A Meissen porcelain oval sugar box and cover, circa 1720, moulded with bands of acanthus leaves, the cover centred with a foliate boss and gilt within, having gilt line decoration and scrolls, height 6 cm, width 13 cm, depth 9.5 cm
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A silver gilt mounted Meissen Hausmalerei porcelain coffee pot, three cups and saucers and a tea caddy, circa 1725, all painted 'En grisaille' with rustic scenes within gilt Augsburg strapwork, the tea caddy of hexagonal outline marked Dsb in iron red script to base, height of coffee pot 25 cm, height of tea caddy 10.5 cm, height of cups 4.2 cm, diameter of saucers 12.3 cm
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A Meissen porcelain double-handled beaker and saucer, circa 1730, each painted in colours with European landscape scenes in the manner of J.G. Horoldt, in shaped reserves, within 'Laub' and 'Bandelwerk' borders, blue crossed swords and gilt monogram to underside, diameter of saucer 12.8 cm, Hight of cup 7 cm
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A Meissen porcelain large cup, circa 1735, of ovoid outline with plain handle, finely painted with Chinoiserie scenes in the manner of J.G. Horoldt, one reserve with an artist in a garden painting a lady's portrait watched by others, the other with two men watching two women bathing, both within gilt and purple borders and coloured scrolls, gilt rim, and footrim, apparently unmarked with paper label '7717' to underside, height 10.8 cm, diameter 10.5 cm
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A Meissen porcelain figure of a Sultan riding on an elephant, circa 1745, modelled by P.J. Reinicke and J.J. Kaendler, the sultan sitting on a patterned cushion and tasselled bolster, wearing a jewelled turban and gilt highlighted purple robe, holding a mace, on a gilt scrolled saddle cloth with tassels, his coloured mahout seated on the elephant's head holding a hammer, blue crossed swords mark in underglaze blue to underside, width 28.5 cm. Provenance: Christie's London, Continental ceramics. The…
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A rare Meissen porcelain beaker and saucer, circa 1723, the tall flared beaker painted in iron-red camaieu, probably by J.G. Horoldt, with two Chinese figures in a garden of flowering plants and a fence with insects overhead, the saucer similarly decorated with a circular scene of a figure attacking a dragon, a phoenix and a salamander with insects and bird flying above and a clump of flowers behind within concentric double-line borders, height of beaker 8 cm, diameter of saucer 12.8 cm. Other Notes: from…
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A pair of Meissen yellow ground plates from the 'Yellow Hunting' service, circa 1730, painted to the centre in a chrysanthemum shaped reserve with a phoenix and flower sprays in the Kakiemon style, the rim with three quatrefoil reserves painted with flowers, brown edge, blue crossed swords mark in underglaze blue and incised black Japanese Palace inventory mark N=148 W to underside, diameter 32.7 cm. Other Notes: ordered by Augustus the strong in 1730 and delivered in late 1734 to the Japanese Palace, it…
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A rare pair of Hochst figures of Pantaloone and Pantalone, circa 1752, modelled by J.C.L. Von Lucke, each figure from the Italian Comedy wearing a fur-lined hat, long black coat and iron-red costume, Pantalone with a dagger at his waist and red shoes, his companion wearing pale yellow shoes, each on a canted rectangular pedestal moulded at the front with a recessed panel and gilt and with a tree-stump support at the rear, wheel marks in iron-red to side of bases, height 21.7 cm and 20.5 cm. Provenance: The…
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A Vincennes cup and saucer (Gobelet a La Reine Et Soucoupe), foliate blue interlaced L mark, circa 1752, the cup with a gilt bordered, shaped reserve painted with a pair of water fowl and a shrub, the saucer with a circular reserve and a similar motif, on a mottled 'Bleu nouveau' ground with gilt marbre, gilt borders, height of cup 6.2 cm, diameter of saucer 14 cm. Other Notes: an identical cup and saucer is in the collection of the metropolitan Museum of Art New York, and was exhibited: New York, the…
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A Sevres porcelain cup and saucer (Gobelet Hebert Et Soucoupe, 2eme Grandeur), blue interlaced L mark with date latter F for 1758, painter's mark N for Francois Aloncie (fl.1758-81) the apple green and 'Bleu nouveau' ground with gilt 'Oeil de perdrix' and fine scrolls, the cup with a quatrefoil reserve painted with a bird and plants, the saucer with a circular reserve painted with a bird in a tree, height of cup 6.5 cm, diameter of saucer 13.5 cm. Provenance: The cup with paper label inscribed 'Sir John…
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A Sevres porcelain cup, cover and saucer (Gobelet a lait Couvert Et SA Soucupe), blue interlaced L mark with date letter F for 1758, painter's mark for Yvernel (fl.1750-58), the pink ground with gilt foliate bordered reserves painted with scenes of birds amidst foliage and shrubbery, the cup with flower finial, height of cup 7.5 cm, diameter of saucer 12.4 cm
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A Sevres porcelain cup, cover and saucer (Gobelet a lait Couvert Et SA Soucupe), blue interlaced L mark with date letter H for 1760, painter's mark for Andre-Vincent Vieillard (fl.1752-90), the apple green ground with gilt foliate bordered reserves painted in colours with Teniers scenes, the cup with flower finial, height of cup 8.5 cm, diameter of saucer 13.7 cm
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A Sevres porcelain cup and saucer (Gobelet Brouillard Et Soucoupe, 1ere Grandeur), the saucer with blue interlaced L mark enclosing date letter E for 1757, painter's mark y, the pink ground with reserves painted with a rural landscape and figure within gilt and shadowed rococo borders, height of cup 6.1 cm, diameter of saucer 13.8 cm
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A Sevres porcelain cup and saucer (Gobelet Calabre Et Soucoupe, 1ere Grandeur), blue interlaced L mark with date latter M for 1765, painter's mark for Andre-Vincent Vieillard, the 'Bleu nouveau' ground with circular reserve to the saucer and oval reserve to the cup painted in colours with an extensive bucolic landscape with distant chateau, within gilt rococo scroll and flower swags borders, old paper auction catalogue entry glued to the base of saucer, height of cup 8.3 cm, diameter of saucer 15 cm
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A Sevres porcelain cup and saucer (Gobelet Brouillard Et Soucoupe, 1ere Grandeur), blue interlaced L mark with date letter q for 1769, the pale green 'Oeil de perdrix' ground with circular reserves painted with a river in a landscape with men fishing, a bridge and farm house beyond, and an obelisk, height of cup 6.1 cm, diameter of saucer 13.8 cm
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A Sevres porcelain ecuelle, cover and stand, (ecuelle 'Ronde Tournee', Plateau Et Couvercle, 3eme Grandeur), puce interlaced L mark enclosing date letter X for 1775, painter's mark Fb for Bourdin to both, and gilder's monogram Vd for Jbe Vande, the apple green-ground with gilt swags and scrolls enclosing oval panels painted in colours with baskets of flowers on ledges, width across handles 16.5 cm, width of stand 20 cm. Literature: Brunet, M and Preaud, T, 'Sevres: Des origines a nos jours', 1978, p.212,…
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A Sevres porcelain square tray (Plateau carre), blue interlaced L mark with date letter E for 1757, painter's mark X for Jacques-Francois Micaud (fl.1757-1800+) and incised mark Pt for postulated worker Tristant, the pink ground with gilt dentil border and lines the reserve painted with flowers and fruit, 14.5 cm square. Other Notes: a similar tray of smaller dimensions is held in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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A Vincennes porcelain teapot (Theiere Calabre), circa 1750, blue interlaced L mark, the 'Bleu celeste' ground with two reserves having gilt rocaille and flower borders painted with flower sprays, height 10.5 cm
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A Sevres porcelain ovoid vase and cover, blue interlaced L mark with date letter a for 1753, painter's mark X for Jacques-Francois Micaud (fl.1757-1800+) the 'Bleu celeste' ground with shaped oval reserves painted with flowers and fruit within gilt flower and scroll borders, the shaped domed cover with flower head finial, the foot with a band of gilt flowers, height 10.5 cm. Other Notes: the shape of this lot is similar to the pot pourri 'Vase Pompadour' but lacks its pierced openings.
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A matched pair of Sevres porcelain bottle coolers (Seaux a Bouteilles), both with interlaced L monogram, one with date letter N for 1766 and painter's mark G for Grison the other with date letter V for 1774, painted with two circular reserves with flowers and fruit on a 'Bleu Nouveau oeil de perdrix' ground, height 13 cm
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A Sevres porcelain bottle cooler (Seau a liqueur Ovale), blue interlaced L mark with date letter N for 1766, painter's mark for Guillaume Noel (fl. 1755-1800) painted with two shaped oval reserves with flowers and fruit on a 'Bleu Nouveau oeil de perdrix' ground, width across handles 31.5 cm. Literature: Brunet, M and Preaud, T, 'Sevres: Des origines a nos jours', 1978, p.192, no.204. Other Notes: a Sevres liqueur bottle cooler of the same shape is held in the collection of the metropolitan Museum of Art,…
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A Sevres porcelain flower vase (cuvette a fleurs a tombeau, 2eme grandeur), blue interlaced L mark, circa 1770, painted to the front and side panels 'en grisaille' with a classical battle scene and trophies, the 'bleu nouveau' ground with gilt lines and pendant interlaced swags, the reverse panel with a gilt rosette, height 18 cm, width 25 cm, depth 15 cm. Literature: Brunet, M and Preaud, T, 'Sevres: Des origines a nos jours', 1978, p.169, no.134, for a detailed discussion of this shape and four examples…
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A matched pair of Sevres porcelain flower vases and stands (vase Hollandois), one vase with blue interlaced L mark and date letter F for 1758, and fleur de lys painter's mark possibly that of Vincent Taillandier (fl.1753-90) the stand with interlaced L mark, the other with iron red mark 1307 R to both pieces, and incised Cn for postulated worker Chanou, of flared form, each with gilt leaves and dentil rim above 'Bleu celeste' ground painted with flower garlands and gilt borders, the pierced shaped oval…
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A rare Sevres porcelain reticulated vase (vase cornet), blue interlaced L mark with date letter K for 1762, painter's mark K for Charles Nicolas Dodin (fl 1754-1800+), the tall flared neck with a ribbon-tied reeded rim above flutes pierced with gilt ribbon-tied pendant oak leaves, within blue borders, above a greek-key band flanked by a pair of partially reticulated handles, the ovoid 'Bleu nouveau' body with a reserve painted in colours with a shepherd, shepherdess and sheep in a landscape in the manner…
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