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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY EWERS
CIRCA 1767, BY PIERRE GOUTHIÈRE
Emblematic of Wine and Water, each respectively fitted with a handle cast as a satyr and a nereid above a flaring spout edged in guilloche banding above a waisted neck and ribbed oval vessel with leaf-tip-cast collar hung respectively with ribbon-tied grape clusters and vine leaves from ram's masks and oyster shell swags from watery dolphin's masks, on flaring socle banded with guilloche and berried laurel on square ormolu plinth, each with white painted Cyrillic inventory numbers to the underside of each base MAY N15, and red painted number 896-10¾in. (27cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1767, BY PIERRE GOUTHIÈRE
Emblematic of Wine and Water, each respectively fitted with a handle cast as a satyr and a nereid above a flaring spout edged in guilloche banding above a waisted neck and ribbed oval vessel with leaf-tip-cast collar hung respectively with ribbon-tied grape clusters and vine leaves from ram's masks and oyster shell swags from watery dolphin's masks, on flaring socle banded with guilloche and berried laurel on square ormolu plinth, each with white painted Cyrillic inventory numbers to the underside of each base MAY N15, and red painted number 896-10¾in. (27cm.) high (2)
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