Lot 2
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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN-PAINTED STEEL CANDLE-VASES, each with lifting stiff-leaf and reeded collar, the urn-shaped body hung with garlanded laurel and mounted with ram's-heads upon splayed, scrolled supports and gadrooned plinth base, one marked 20017

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN-PAINTED STEEL CANDLE-VASES, each with lifting stiff-leaf and reeded collar, the urn-shaped body hung with garlanded laurel and mounted with ram's-heads upon splayed, scrolled supports and gadrooned plinth base, one marked 20017
10½in. (26.5cm.) high
extended 6½in. (16cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The vase's handles of laurel-festooned 'bacchic' ram's-mask tied to the ribbon neck-band, are designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner of the 1760's. While their pattern derives from a 'satyr-mask' vase designed by Joseph Marie Vien (d.1809) and published in M.T. Vien's, Suite de Vaes Composée dans le Goût de l'Antique, Paris 1760, pl. 13; the rams'-masks relate to the Athéniene tripod-pattern in Vien's 1763 painting 'La Vertuese Athénienne' engraved by P. Filipart in 1765.

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