Famille Rose Double Gourd Vase with Ormolu Mounts
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A Chinese porcelain fine quality large famille rose double gourd vase, decorated with polychrome flowering vines and sgraffito on a pale turquoise green ground, red geometric and gilt highlights. The base with drill hole through the iron red Qianlong seal mark, also with three labels. Fancy ormolu mounts to top and base.
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- Ormolu - Ormolu was popular with French craftsmen in the 18th and 19th century for ornamental fittings for furniture, clocks and other decorative items. True ormolu is gilt bronze, that is bronze that has been coated with gold using a mercury amalgam. Due to the health risks associated with using mercury, this method of creating ormolu was discontinued in France in the 1830s. A substitute was developed consisting of about 75% copper and 25% zinc, however it was inferior to the bronze version. It was often lacquered to prevent it tarnishing.
- Polychrome - Made or finished in many colours. For furniture, it is used to indicated a painted finish.
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