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A very fine and rare Louis XV gilt bronze mounted porcelain and silver brûle-parfum, the gilt bronze stamped with a C-couronné poinçon, the silver by Pierre-Aymé Joubert and the porcelain attributed to Meissen, the white porcelain putto with polychrome painted sash seated on a rocaille scrolled gilt bronze base, set with a white porcelain swan with painted beak, eye, black tipped wings and feet on a green painted base, set beside a silver ovoid-shaped perfume bottle, issuing bulrushes and foliage and further embellished with encircling gilt bronze bulrushes and foliage Paris, the gilt bronze dated 1745-49 Height 22 cm, width 22 cm, depth 12.5 cm The gilt bronze dates to between March 1745 and February 1749, during which period Paris bronzes had, for tax purposes, to be stamped with a C-couronné poinçon. The silver was also made in Paris by Pierre-Aymé Joubert who was received as a maître-orfèvre in September 1735 and worked up until 1763. Although the porcelain is not marked it was most probably made by the Meissen Porcelain factory near Dresden, comparing with other small swan figurines dating from the early eighteenth century, which as here had little decoration except for painted details around the eyes, beak, wings, feet and sometimes the base. Similar swans were modelled by Kändler, such as a pair of circa 1747, illustrated in Hugo Morley-Fletcher, “Meissen Porcelain in Colour”, 1971, p. 60. During the eighteenth century it was very fashionable to own European and Oriental porcelain adorned with lavish gilt bronze mounts as well as silver. Pieces such as this brûle-parfum would almost certainly have been assembled by the Paris marchands-merciers for the luxury trade. A number of similarly styled brûle-parfums included Meissen figurines while others featured Chinese porcelain vessels and animals. |