Lot 78
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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MARBLE AND FAUX MARBLE URNS, each with a marblised over-painted porcelain urn with a basket weave grape and vine ormolu rim, and with ribbon-tied vine festoons between three satyr-figures, on a tripod stand with acanthus-cast support on hairy claw feet, the concave-sided trefoil base with beaded edge and three sphinx feet on concave green marble base with three toupie feet (one acanthus-cast support broken), late 19th/20th Century

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MARBLE AND FAUX MARBLE URNS, each with a marblised over-painted porcelain urn with a basket weave grape and vine ormolu rim, and with ribbon-tied vine festoons between three satyr-figures, on a tripod stand with acanthus-cast support on hairy claw feet, the concave-sided trefoil base with beaded edge and three sphinx feet on concave green marble base with three toupie feet (one acanthus-cast support broken), late 19th/20th Century
44½in. (113cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The double-banded urn in the 'antique' manner, which relates to a pattern introduced at the Sèvres factory about 1770, is embellished in the Louis XVI manner with festive bacchic ornament comprising panther tripod-feet and a vine-wreathed basket borne by satyrs with garlands

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