1735

A Saint Cloud silver-mounted circular snuff box, circa 1735. Photo Bonhams Moulded in relief with pagodas on landscape vignettes to the side, a parrot perched on a branch to the base and a hunt vignette with a boar and hound on the cover, the silver mount with discharge mark of Hubert Louvet, Paris 1732-38, 4.5cm diam, (haircrack to side of box at rear). Estimate: £800 - 1,200, € 920 - 1,400, US$ 1,300 - 2,000 - Sold for £2,280 Provenance: Alfred Joseph Collection, no. 1319 Literature: Beaucamp-Markowsky 1985, no.... [Lire la suite]

  A St. Cloud silver-mounted water jug and cover, circa 1730. Photo Sotheby's in the white, applied with trailing branches of prunus blossom. Wilfrid Evill Collection Label; 20cm., 8in. ESTIMATE 4,000-6,000 GBP - Lot Sold: 7,500 GBP Note: For a similar example, together with its matching basin in the Musée de la Céramique in Rouen, see the Bard Graduate Center exhibition catalogue, The Saint-Cloud Manufactory, Ed. Bertrand Rondot, 1999, pp. 170-171, no. 87 An unusual figure of a magot, attributed to Villeroy, circa... [Lire la suite]

Black and Gold-Striped service plate. Photo: Bonhams LONDON.- The auction of ‘The Hoffmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain Part III’ took place today (24.11.10) at Bonhams, New Bond Street and made £790,560, selling 81% by lot and 71% by value. This brings the total for the three sales of finest collection of Meissen porcelain to £2,988,120. The top selling lot today was an extremely rare Meissen plate from the ‘Black and Gold-Striped’ service circa 1735 which is believed at one time to have been in the possession of Baron... [Lire la suite]

An Italian carved giltwood mirror, Venetian, circa 1735 the pierced cresting centred by a stylised scallopshell flanked by scrolls, flowers and rocaille above a shaped plate with engraved borders with neo-classical figures, the sides surmounted by female terms above scrolls, acanthus and flowers, the apron engraved with a vase of flowers. 216cm high, 156cm wide; 7ft. 1in., 5ft. 1½in. Est. 25,000—40,000 GBP Sotheby's. Important Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Clocks. 07 Jul 09 03:00 PM. London www.sothebys.com

Ensemble de 239 pièces en porcelaine de Chine, de la Compagnie des Indes pour le marché hollandais, décor dit "Merian", vers 1735. Estimation  : 100 000/120 000 €. Vendredi 27 mars, salle 1 - Drouot-Richelieu. Mathias SVV. M. Raindre.