A pair of green patinated bronze tripods

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A pair of green patinated bronze tripods
with flaming finials and stiff leaf cast rims, the fluted bodies with borders of Greek key intersected by lion masks, the leaf and scroll decorated monopodiae with hairy paw feet, arround central spirally fluted vase supports, on concave marmo nero belgio and breccia plinths French, 19th century -- 25in. (63.5cm.) high (2)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Early Neo-classicism in France, Svend Eriksen

The design of these vase and monopodiae supported tripods closely relates to an engraving drawn in Rome between 1740 and 1748 by Jacques-Francois-Joseph Saly and published as Plate III in Volume II of the Comte de Caylus' Recueil d'Antiquiti©s of 1756.

The Roman tripod from which the engraving was made was found at Hadrian's Villa. It is currently in the Louvre.

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