A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SERPENTINE VASES

19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED SERPENTINE VASES
19th Century
Each with a ribbed body and foliate-cast scrolling tripartite supports headed by Bacchic masks and centered by an entwined serpent and with hoof feet, on circular plinth
20in. (51cm.) high, 9½in. (29cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

These vases are derived from a vase commissioned by the duc d'Aumont for his celebrated collection of mounted hardstone objects. It was bought by Marie Antoinette at the Aumont sale in December 1782 and is now in the Wallace Collection, London (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. III, no. 275, pp. 1340-1344).