A pair of ormolu and breche marble vases

BY EGIDE ROMBAUX, CIRCA 1900

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A pair of ormolu and breche marble vases
By Egide Rombaux, Circa 1900
Each of slender form, one surmounted by a bird with outstretched wings, holding a disc in its beak, flanked to each side by a scrolled foliate handle, the base cast with a fox, looking upwards, the other surmounted by a cockerel, flanked by a pair of scrolled corn handles, the base with a pair of cockerels, each signed to the reverse E. ROMBAUX, on a square spreading panelled base
The fox and bird vase: 35 in. (89 cm.) high The cockerel vase: 32 in. (82 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Property from a European Collection, sold in these rooms, 14 May 1998. lot 61.

Lot Essay

The inspiration for the design of these vases is based on the fables by Jean de la Fontaine (d. 1695), including that of Le Corbeau et le Renard.

Egide Rombaux was born at Schaerbeek in 1865. He won the prix de Rome in 1891 and became a professor at the Institut Suprieur des Beaux Arts, Antwerp and later the Brussels Academy.

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