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AIGUIÈRE ET SON BASSIN EN ARGENT D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XVI PAR JOSEPH THÉODORE VAN CAUWENBERGHE DIT VANCOMBERT, PARIS, 1779-1780
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L'aiguière balustre sur piédouche circulaire bordé d'une couronne de laurier, le corps décoré sur la panse de cannelures rehaussées de feuilles d'acanthe sous une ceinture d'oves, le col ciselé de trois médaillions ovales tenus par des guirlandes de fleurs et figurant sur les côtés des cygnes et au centre Diane et Actéon, le bord ciselé d'une frise d'oves centrée sous le bec verseur d'un écu, le couvercle à charnière avec prise en cygne, le bassin à contours bordés de laurier, ciselé sur l’aile de frises en chutes de fleurs et compartiments décorés de paons, coq et poule, canard et dauphins affrontés, poinçons : sous le fond, sous le bassin et dans le couvercle : charge, lettre-date (q) et maître-orfèvre ; sur le bord du pied de l’aiguière et sur l’aile du bassin : décharge (une tête de chameau : décharge des ouvrages d’or et d’argent passant à l’étranger) H. de l'aiguière: 26,5 cm. (10 1⁄ 2 in.); L. du bassin: 35 cm. (13 3⁄ 4 in.) 1,877 gr. (60 oz. 6 dwt.)Vente Halls of Shrewsbury, 9 septembre 1994, lot 84.A LOUIS XVI SILVER EWER AND BASIN, MARK OF JOSEPH THÉODORE VAN CAUWENBERGHE OR VANCOMBERT, PARIS, 1779-1780 The baluster ewer with laurel borders, chased on the lower part with fluting adorned with acanthus leaves below an ovolo border, the plain collar chased with three oval medallions held by flower garlands and figuring on the sides swans and in the centre Diana and Acteon, and below the spout a vacant cartouche with ovolo border above, the cover with swan finial; the shaped oval basin chased with flower garlands holding four oval medallions chased with various animals including a cockerel and hen, two peacocks, accole swans and a duck being devoured by a dog, marked underneath and in cover This basin and its ewer is one of Vancombert's masterpiece. Vancombert was a prolific silversmith who left a large and eclectic body of work. Vancombert seems to have followed in the footsteps of the precursors of the Transition style, such as Jean-Baptiste Chéret, combining the curves of the Louis XV style, after ornemanists such as Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1789), with Louis XVI-style motifs such as flower garlands, tied ribbon, pearls and roses. This basin and its ewer are a perfect example of the coexistence of Rococo and Neoclassicism. The basin, in particular, retains its typical Rocaille shape as well as motifs such as the engraved animal scenes after Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686-1755), associated with the Rocaille style. Meanwhile the abundance of ornamentation is typical of the Transition style at a time when silversmiths, and above all their patrons, were reluctant to switch from one style to another. This Rococo influence so late in the century is all the more understandable when we consider that the piece bears the discharge mark for objects going abroad, which suggests a foreign commission from a client who still preferred the Louis XV style to the Louis XVI style. The theme of Diana and Actaeon featured on the ewer is a myth from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Book III) very popular with goldsmiths because it is so visual: Actaeon, the son of Apollo and Cadmos, is brought up by the centaur Chiron and becomes a fine hunter. During a hunt, he surprises Diana in the bath. Furious, she transforms him into a stag to be devoured by her dogs.