A PAIR OF ORMOLU VASES, after the antique Medici krater vase, the reeded gadrooned rim surmounting bas-relief, depicting a fruit-festooned satyr-mask, hunting trophies of game and fruits of the sea, flanked to each side with further musical and military trophies including a sword, an axe and a horn suspended from a thyrsus, above a reeded and palmed pedestal and a lotus-leaf adorned plinth set upon a lacquered brass pedestal embellished with hunt-weapons suspended from bacchic lion-masks, the sides with acanthus-supported fruiting-tazzas, late 18th early 19th Century

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU VASES, after the antique Medici krater vase, the reeded gadrooned rim surmounting bas-relief, depicting a fruit-festooned satyr-mask, hunting trophies of game and fruits of the sea, flanked to each side with further musical and military trophies including a sword, an axe and a horn suspended from a thyrsus, above a reeded and palmed pedestal and a lotus-leaf adorned plinth set upon a lacquered brass pedestal embellished with hunt-weapons suspended from bacchic lion-masks, the sides with acanthus-supported fruiting-tazzas, late 18th early 19th Century
21in.(53.5cm.) high (2)
Provenance
The Talleyrand-Perigord Ruspoli Collection, villa l'Imperialino, via del Poggio Imperiale, Florence, sold S. Marco's house sale, 31 May - 2 June 1969, lot 569

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