For over 40 years, the gallery has presented European works of art and clocks from the 17th to the 19th Centuries. It has come to specialise in French gilt bronze objects and mounted Asian porcelain as well as exceptional time pieces.
My early training as a clock restorer gives me a rigorous approach to selecting the pieces I sell: they must meet strict criteria for authenticity and condition.
I am an internationally recognised expert in the field of gilt bronzes and the gallery’s clients include museums and private collectors in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Pair of Régence gilt-bronze mounted Chinese powder-blue porcelain cachepots
Circa 1715-1723
Height: 19.5 cm. (7 ¾ in.)
Width: 25cm. (10 in.)
The oviform bodies gilt with stylised phoenix among flowering shrubs issuing from rockwork and fences, the mounts with cast lion’s mask and ring handles between reeded and gadrooned rims.
Provenance
– Nathaniel Mayer ‘Natty’ Rothschild (1840-1915) 1st Lord Rothschild, Tring Park, Hertfordshire by 1915
– By descent to his grandson, Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990)
– Thence by family descent
Exhibited
Formerly on loan at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
Rothschild Provenance
These cache pots were acquired sometime in the last quarter of the 19th Century by Nathaniel Mayer, the 1st Lord Rothschild for his country estate, Tring Park, in Hertfordshire. They are listed in the inventory taken after his death in 1915 in a Guest Bedroom at Tring described as A pair of Oriental powder blue jardinieres, with ormolu mounts, 7 ½ “ high.
Tring Park was bought by Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879) in 1872 as a wedding present for Nathaniel and his wife. It is best known for the extraordinary zoo that their son, Walter, created on the estate. It passed to Walter’s nephew, Victor, 3rd Lord Rothschild, who broke up it and sold it in 1938 at the same time as he sold off the contents of the family’s London house at 148 Picadilly. The cache pots passed to Victor’s eldest son, Nathaniel Charles Jacob, 4th Lord Rothschild (1936-2024), who placed them on long-term loan at Waddesdon Manor.
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