Ref: 2565
A Pair of Brûle Parfum
Ref: 2565
A Pair of Brûle Parfum
Circa 1790
Gilded Bronze
24 cm (9¹/₂ inches)
Paris, France
Gilded Bronze
24 cm (9¹/₂ inches)
Paris, France
Description: Cobalt blue glass, gilt and chased bronze, ovoid glass form, on a rectangular base with gold ornamentation.
This arrangement, characterized by a charming contrast between the transparent blue of the glass body and the surrounding bronzes, rests on a gilt pedestal with a gilt plinth. The arms of the base terminate in sculpted rooster busts, connected by a delicate chain hanging with applied tassels. The vase opening is crowned by a hoop-shaped, finely profiled, ornamentally openwork bronze appliqué. A very similar censer is housed in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu.
This arrangement, characterized by a charming contrast between the transparent blue of the glass body and the surrounding bronzes, rests on a gilt pedestal with a gilt plinth. The arms of the base terminate in sculpted rooster busts, connected by a delicate chain hanging with applied tassels. The vase opening is crowned by a hoop-shaped, finely profiled, ornamentally openwork bronze appliqué. A very similar censer is housed in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu.
Literature: Hans Ottomeyer/Peter Pröschel, Gilded Bronzes, Vol. I, Munich 1986, p. 268, No. 4.9.13
Peter Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalog of Furniture III, London 1996, p. 1341 and p. 1346
Pierre Kjellberg, Objets montés du Moyen Âge a nos jours, Paris 2000, pp. 123 – 125
Philippe Jullian, Le Style Louis XVI, Paris n.d., p. 127, figs. 8 and 9
Peter Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalog of Furniture III, London 1996, p. 1341 and p. 1346
Pierre Kjellberg, Objets montés du Moyen Âge a nos jours, Paris 2000, pp. 123 – 125
Philippe Jullian, Le Style Louis XVI, Paris n.d., p. 127, figs. 8 and 9
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