A PAIR OF FRENCH IVORY URNS

DIEPPE, POSSIBLY EARLY 18TH CENTURY BUT MOST PROBABLY FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH IVORY URNS
Dieppe, possibly early 18th century but most probably first half 19th Century
Each domed acanthus-carved lid with pine cone finial and fluted edge above a double gadrooned lip, one side carved with a river God, the other with a river Goddess, each with putto in a wooded mountain landscape, the underside of the urn acanthus-sheathed and set at either side with a Satyr-mask volute handle, on a reeded and spiral-fluted stem and rosette-guilloche and acanthus-decorated molded foot, each bearing a paper label inscribed Queen Anne/Rm./Cabinet/Top Shelf
6in. (15cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Executed in the Mannerist style, this pair of urns aptly demonstrates the exceptional quality in Dieppe in the 18th Century and first half of the 19th Century. The grotesque masks to each side are especially indicative of this, and are likely based on prototypes from the late 17th or early 18th Century such as that in the British Museum, illustrated in E. von Philippovich, Elfenbein, Munich, 1982, p. 254, fig. 213.

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