Lot Details
Lot 87
Pair of Gilt-Bronze Mounted Sevres Porcelain Covered Brule Parfums
18th Century
Each circular tapering body surmounted by a removable lid, decorated with rose flower and bud reserves within a gilt leafage rim on a cobalt blue ground, having a pierced guilloche-form rim flanked by scroll handles, raised on a socle and square base. Height 9 inches (23 cm).
Provenance:
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Hotel de Marlborough, 9, Avenue Charles-Floquet, Paris
Literature:
L.-H. Prost, Collection de Madame et du Colonel Balsan, vol.I, ppl.XXX, XXIII, XXXII
A similar pair of brule parfums from the collection of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan were sold Christie's, New York, 23 October 1998, as well as Sotheby's, New York, lot 28, The Keck Collection, December 6, 1991, lot 225 and Christie's, London, Works of Art from Houghton, 8 December 1994, lot 36
Estate of Lady Sarah Consuelo Spencer-Churchill
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