Lot 59
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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE URNS, in the Louis XVI style, each with a baluster-shaped body with fluted everted rim, flanked by a pair of ho-ho bird neck handles supporting ribbon-tied floral festoons, the lower part with acanthus-pierced frame, on spirally-fluted circular spreading socle with oak-leaf wreath, on square-stepped base with leaf-cast border

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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE URNS, in the Louis XVI style, each with a baluster-shaped body with fluted everted rim, flanked by a pair of ho-ho bird neck handles supporting ribbon-tied floral festoons, the lower part with acanthus-pierced frame, on spirally-fluted circular spreading socle with oak-leaf wreath, on square-stepped base with leaf-cast border
16in. (40.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The model for these vases is a pair, formerly in the Hamilton Palace Collection, sold by Christie's 17-19 June 1882 (lot 162 illustrated). A closely related pair were sold in these Rooms 15 February, 1990, lot 85.

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