THE URNS CIRCA 1800, THE MARBLE PLINTHS CIRCA 1825, ORIGINALLY WITH LIDS

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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED, PATINATED-BRONZE AND VERDE ANTICO URNS
THE URNS CIRCA 1800, THE MARBLE PLINTHS CIRCA 1825, ORIGINALLY WITH LIDS
Each modelled as a campana-shaped two handled vase, flanked by rams masks above a waisted socle and circular spreading foot, on a stepped square pinth, decorated to the front and sides with a laurel rosette, on a leaf-tip cast stepped base, the threads replaced
19¼ in. (49 cm.) high; 6 in. (5.25 cm.) square (2)

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Lot Essay

Like the contemporary caryatid figured candelabra, such bacchic wine-krater and ram-handled Medici vases with their marble Grecian-stepped altar plinths, hung with poetic laurel-wreaths, would have served as chimneypiece garnitures in apartments decorated in the antique fashion promoted by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's, Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, 1801.

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