A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, WHITE MARBLE AND DARK BLUE-GROUND 'LACRIMAL' VASES ON STANDS, THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-CLAUDE-CHAMBELLAN DUPLESSIS, ONE VASE SEVRES HARD-PASTE PORCELAIN, CIRCA 1782, THE OTHER A ROYAL DOULTON REPLACEMENT, CIRCA 1892

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, WHITE MARBLE AND DARK BLUE-GROUND 'LACRIMAL' VASES ON STANDS
THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-CLAUDE-CHAMBELLAN DUPLESSIS, ONE VASE SEVRES HARD-PASTE PORCELAIN, CIRCA 1782, THE OTHER A ROYAL DOULTON REPLACEMENT, CIRCA 1892
Each vase with flared neck and tapering body, supported on a tripod with milled ring bands, squared milled legs and hoof feet, on a concave-sided base, possibly conceived with mounts to the rims
One 41 ¼ in. (105 cm.) high; the other 42 ¾ in. (108.5 cm.) high

Provenance

By repute, formerly the property of 'General Augostine' by whose ancestor they were taken from Versailles.
Purchased by William James from George Sinclair, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, on 22 June 1892 for £160. One vase was broken when bought and Doulton supplied a copy for £15.
Photographed in the Tapestry Corridor in 1895 by Bedford Lemere & Co.