A PAIR OF CHINESE CELADON GLAZED ORMOLU-MOUNTED PEAR-SHAPED VASES THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY, THE
A PAIR OF CHINESE CELADON GLAZED ORMOLU-MOUNTED PEAR-SHAPED VASES THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS 19TH CENTURY Each rising from a spread foot to a waisted neck which flares towards the rim, the neck of each flanked by two moulded handles shaped as chilong, decorated all over with a greyish-green crackled glaze, with European ormolu mounts to the feet and rims, 43cm overall. (2) Provenance: from the collection of the late Hubert René Joseph Georges Faure (1919-2020). Hubert Faure was the first husband of Elizabeth (Bessie) de Cuevas, who married when she was nineteen. Bessie was the daughter of Margaret Rockefeller, granddaughter of John D Rockefeller. Cf. J Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, vol.2, nos.1266-1267 for a pair of similar vases.
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