A PAIR OF LEAD VASES, each of hexagonal form, the lid surmounted by a finial, and decorated with acanthus and gadrooning, the waisted body cast in high relief and with a drilled background, the six sides each with an oval cartouche above a stylised twin-handled flower-filled vase, the lower part of bombé form and with an arabesque satyr mask, on a spreading gadrooned foot (restorations; the feet now filled with cement; the lids possibly cut from the body at a later date); and two associated square stone pedestals, first half 18th century

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A PAIR OF LEAD VASES, each of hexagonal form, the lid surmounted by a finial, and decorated with acanthus and gadrooning, the waisted body cast in high relief and with a drilled background, the six sides each with an oval cartouche above a stylised twin-handled flower-filled vase, the lower part of bombé form and with an arabesque satyr mask, on a spreading gadrooned foot (restorations; the feet now filled with cement; the lids possibly cut from the body at a later date); and two associated square stone pedestals, first half 18th century
the vases: 23in. (58.5cm.) wide; 40in. (101.5cm.) high
the pedestals: 16½in. (42cm.) square; 27in. (68.5cm.) high

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Lot Essay

These Louis XIV style vases in the manner of Andries Carpentiere, are illustrated at Brantingham Thorpe, Yorkshire in G. Jekyll and C. Hussey, Garden Ornament, London, 1918, pp. 143

They were sold at Christie's on 3rd July 1985, Lot 106 on behalf of Mr Christopher Firth (now deceased), the then owner of Brantinghamthorpe.

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