CIRCA 1880

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY VASES
CIRCA 1880
Each vase of baluster form, flanked by bifricating acanthus leaf handles terminating in fruiting grape leaves, above a cast berried laurel waist and entrelac-mounted base above a stepped square plinth with a beaded border
22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high; 10 ¾ in. (27.5 cm.) wide; 9 ½ in. (24.2 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The model for the present pair of vases is almost certainly a derivation of an eighteenth-century girandole. An ormolu-mounted alabaster model of nearly identical form, surmounted with seven flowering candlearms and dated 1780, is in the collection of Petit Trianon, Châteaux de Versailles (inv. no. GML11058).

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