CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, FOURS DE LONGQUAN (PROVINCE... Lot n° 11

14th / 15th century for the PORCELAINE FRANCE, LOUIS XV ERA, VERS 1750 FOR THE IMPORTANT VASE VASE Porcelain stoneware with celadon cover and gilded bronze Seal with crowned "C" (1745-1749) H. 51 cm, W. 31 cm, D. 23 cm This important vase is decorated with a very slight relief of foliage on the neck and rumen, the latter presenting a frieze of floral motifs in its upper part and fluting similar to lotus petals at the base. The ensemble is adorned with important gilded bronze frames, including two important scrolls with flower and piastres friezes forming the handles; the frieze lip with foliage and mouldings motifs; the wrapped frieze neckline; and the circular base with frieze of scrolls. Our vase is one of those masterpieces of the culture of the art object that made the European aristocracy of the 18th century French dream. An exceptional celadon, of a soft color combined with bronze frames gilded with ground gold. The cover of Longquan celadons is particularly light green. These porcelains were exported from the 13th century to Islamic countries, the Middle East and then Europe. They were extremely appreciated and held an important place in the collections of European amateurs (fig. 1). One of the most singular reasons for such a favour towards celadons was for a long time the conviction that one had then the power of this material to be able, by simple change of colour, to detect the poison with which it could have been put in contact. In Paris, in the middle of the 18th century, the merchant merchant Lazare Duvaux, based in rue Saint-Honoré, specialized in mounted objects. His Journal Book covering the years 1748-1758 was published by Louis Courajod in 1873 and mentions many celadon objects for which the merchant used the services of the greatest bronzers of his time, including Duplessis, to decorate them "in bronze gilded with ground gold", as a 14th century model taking up the decoration of our copy, namely lotus petals