Lot 1279
1279
A SET OF FOUR LEAD URNS, each with a foliate moulded rim and guilloche band, the upper section of the body with foliate scrolls and a mask head to each side, flanked by two scrolled handles with female terminals, the bulbous lower part with gadrooned decoration, on acanthus-cast circular spreading foot, late 19th/early 20th century

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A SET OF FOUR LEAD URNS, each with a foliate moulded rim and guilloche band, the upper section of the body with foliate scrolls and a mask head to each side, flanked by two scrolled handles with female terminals, the bulbous lower part with gadrooned decoration, on acanthus-cast circular spreading foot, late 19th/early 20th century
27in. (68.5cm.) wide; 30½in. (77.5cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

These urns in the Louis XIV arabesque manner with pelt-wrapped satyr masks emerging from Roman foliage, with water gadrooned guilloche and nymphs emerging from foliate scroll handles, supported on acanthus bud stems, are after a design by John Van Nost for William III's palace at Hampton Court, see a related vase illustrated in G. Plumpton, Garden Ornament, 1989, fig. 76A, and also L. Weaver, English Leadwork, It's Art & History, 1909, pp. 203

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