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THE PORCELAIN 18TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-CLAUDE CHAMBELLAN DUPLESSIS, CIRCA 1765 The porcelain body modelled in the form of a Gu vase, the gadrooned rim mount with ribbons at angles, on a pierced acanthus base; originally with berried foliate swag handles, one now lacking, the other detached and lacking section to one end 11 in. (28 cm.) high; 8 ? in. (22 cm.) wide; 7 ? in. (19 cm.) deep
This superb vase demonstrates the skilful art of mounted porcelain, which reached its peak in the 1740s and ’50 though the innovative role of various marchands-merciers, notably Lazare Duvaux. It unites a precious Chinese celadon porcelain vase with superbly cast and chased gilt-bronze mounts attributed to the chief designer and sculpteur at Sèvres from 1748 to 1774, Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis (d.1774). The pale celadon vase, of archaic bronze form, was clearly highly prized and considered precious in itself. The rim and base mounts are therefore fitted around the porcelain but do not pierce it in any way. Comparable vases attributed to Duplessis, with closely related bases consisting of scrolls, are now at the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, vol. II, 1974, p. 764). A number of entries in the Livre-journal of the Lazare Duvaux show that Duplessis was regularly engaged to provide mounts for Chinese porcelain, such as those sold to the Marquis de Voyer, Monsieur Gaignat and Madame de Pompadour (L. Courajod, Livre-Journal de Lazare Duvaux, Marchand-Bijoutier Ordinaire du Roy, 1748-1758, Paris, 1873, tome II, nos. 601, 1713 and 1810).
A virtually identical base mount features on a vase sold Christie’s London, 2 November 2016, lot 29.