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A RARE PAIR OF GILT-DECORATED CELADON-GROUND FAMILLE ROSE
‘EUROPEAN SUBJECT’ VASES
18TH CENTURY
Each lobed vase is decorated with shaped panels on either side, one with a woman carrying a child on her
back walking in a wintry landscape beside a dog, and the other with a woman crowning the head of the
man kneeling before her with a garland of fowers. The panels are reserved on a celadon ground decorated
in gilding with chrysanthemum scroll beneath stylized lappets on the waisted neck which is fanked by two
dragon-form handles. Each base bears the remnants of a seal mark.
11√ in. (29.9 cm.) high
(2)
$35,000-45,000

PROVENANCE
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) Collection, Pennsylvania.
The present vases were formerly in the collection of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), an accomplished
politician whose long political career began in the Pennsylvania General Assembly and continued as
he served as a member of congress and founder of the House Committee on Finance. Gallatin served
as Secretary of the Treasury under president Thomas Jeferson, where he served from 1801-1814, and
during this time was on a committee to negotiate the Treaty of Ghent which successfully put an end
to the War of 1812. Gallatin also held numerous other political positions during his career including
Ambassador to France, and Ambassador to Britain. In 1831 Gallatin founded New York University,
and is the namesake of the Albert Gallatin School of Individualized study at New York University.
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