Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of (14760079691)

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Title: Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Wallace Collection (London, England)
Subjects: Art Art objects
Publisher: London, Printed for H. M. Stationery Off
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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Carousing. By Dodin. Date Letter for 1759. Style and Period of Louis Quinze. 121. Flower - shaped Vase with Pierced Cover, of apple-green Sevres porcelain, of the Yincennes period ofmanufacture. The pierced openings of the cover are deco-rated with wheat-ears in flat gilding, and the body of thevase has a gilt decoration of flowers and peacocks feathers,framing cartels in which are painted Birds in Landscapes. Probably by Aloncle. No Date Letter or Mark. About 1755. Style and Period of Louis Quinze. 122. Fan-shaped Flower Stand (Jardiniere en JEventail) of apple-green Sevres porcelain, elaborately enriched with gild-ing, and decorated with cartels, of which the central oneshows a Shepherd and Shepherdess in the Boucher Style. The flowers by Theodore Buteux. Date Letter for 1761. Style and Period of Louis Quinze. 123. Vase and Cover (Cassolette) of green artificial quartz inthe form of a tripod. The bowl and cover are mounted inbronze, cast, chased, and gilt. The supports terminate in
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Plate 38. Vase-Clock of green ceil-de-perdrix Sevres. Page 185. GALLERY XIL, CASE B. 185 rams heads wreathed with festoons of grape-vine ; at thebase are seated three infant Satyrs. From the collection of the Due de Moray.Style and Period of Louis Seize. 124. The companion Vase and Cover to No. 123. 125. Vase-Clock of green ceil-de-perdrix Sevres porcelain, with a stand and mounts of bronze, cast, chased, and gilt, in themanner of Gouthiere. The main decoration of che vase consists of supporting figures ofAmorini (in porcelain completely gilt), holding up garlands. The Clock by Le Montjoye, of Paris. No Date Letter. From the collection of the Due de Moray. Made in the last years of. Louis Quinze in the so-called Louis-Seize Style. (See Plate No. 38.) 126. Fan-shaped Flower Vase (Jardiniere en fiventail) rose Du Barry Sevres porcelain, enriched with gilding in therocaille Style, and decorated with a cartel in which arepainted Children at Play. Date Letter for 1757. Style and Period of