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An Italian bronze athénienne late 19th century
The dish with everted rim above a reeded band, the underside with overlaid acanthus and flower heads emanating from a central floral boss, supported at ram's mask brackets flanked by foliate swags on four monopodial legs tapering down through a canted collar at the mid-point with guilloche above and below flowerheads, a further collar above the paw feet with imbricated gothic arcading, on a square base -- 43¼in. (109.8cm.) high, 15¼in. (38.8cm.) diameter
The dish with everted rim above a reeded band, the underside with overlaid acanthus and flower heads emanating from a central floral boss, supported at ram's mask brackets flanked by foliate swags on four monopodial legs tapering down through a canted collar at the mid-point with guilloche above and below flowerheads, a further collar above the paw feet with imbricated gothic arcading, on a square base -- 43¼in. (109.8cm.) high, 15¼in. (38.8cm.) diameter
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Please note that the catalogue illustration of this lot is wrongly numbered as 245