Lot n° 138
Estimation :
800 - 1200
EUR
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Result
: 900EUR
Gilt bronze paper plate (with gold varnish) decorated in the - Lot 138
Gilt bronze paper plate (with gold varnish) decorated in the Chinese style with a child accompanied by his mother; (wear).
Louis XV period.
H : 15 cm, W : 14 cm, D : 8 cm.
In addition to clock ornaments, lacquered bronze Chinese figures were also used to decorate paperweights in the 18th century. A similar example, lacquered (and not simply gilded), is now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (A. Forray-Carlier and M. Kopplin, Les secrets de la laque française, le vernis Martin, cat. exp., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2014, n°57, p. 100-101).
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