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Sichel vase (lot 52) in gallery at The Metropolotan Museum of Art in 1918

A lengthy article by Lucie Chopard, ‘Chinese Porcelain enters the Sources: https://fokum-jams.org/index.php/jams/article/view/124/219
Louvre: A Collector, his Dealers, and the Parisian Art Market (c. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Sichel https://www.
1870-1912)’, in the Journal for Art Market Studies, vol 4, no.2 (2020) artmarketmonitor.com/2018/06/12/sothebys-paris-sells-yangcai-
notes that the writer Goncourt had already noted the evolution of vase-for-e16-18m-19-11m/
dealers from merchants of “bric-à-brac” to “gentlemen dressed by
our tailors”, using Auguste Sichel as an example. He adds that the
proximity between collector and dealer is evident in an anecdote
reported by Alfred Grandidier in his Mémoires where he explains
that his brother invited Philippe Sichel to his castle near Paris, the
Château de Fleury-Mérogis, and that the dealer used the opportunity
to convince him to sell the estate in order to buy more porcelain for
his collection.

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