A PAIR OF FRENCH NEO-CLASSIC STYLE PATINATED-BRONZE URNS

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A PAIR OF FRENCH NEO-CLASSIC STYLE PATINATED-BRONZE URNS
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY F. BARBEDIENNE, AFTER A MODEL BY CLAUDE MICHEL, CALLED CLODION

Each with urn-form body chased with classical figures sending offerings to Vesta, flanked by grotesque mask handles, on a circular laurel-wreath cast socle raised on a square griotte marble plinth, signed F. Barbedienne--15¼in. (38.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The F. Barbedienne foundry in Paris listed production for A. Collas reductions of the Clodion vase in 1862. The offered lot corresponds with a third example which was introduced in 1876, which closely followed the original. A Barbedienne reduction of the original vase is now in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.