LOUIS XVI-STYLE POTPOURRI VASE Based on a model by Jean Dulac In blue-ground Sèvres porcelain, Louis XVI-style chased-gilt bronze mounting, the lid surmounted by a pine-cone motif, the body adorned with an openwork frieze decorated with posts and flanked by lion's head handles holding a corpse, resting on a square-section pedestal. H.:43 cm (17 in.) l.:29 cm (11 ½ in.) Comparative bibliography: P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe siècle, Picard, Paris, 2003, p.72. A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted and Sevres porcelain pot-pourri vase and cover, after the model by Jean Dulac

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