A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES VERT PRE POT-POURRIS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES VERT PRE POT-POURRIS
Each with a domed lid surmounted by a fruiting finial and above a pierced guilloche band, the bulbous body with two female's masks issuing ribbon-twist handles suspending vine swags hung with ribbons, on a foliate cap and on a fluted waisted circular foot with laurel rim and a square lappeted foot
12 in. (31 cm.) high (2)

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This bacchic egg-shaped, thyrus-finialed and laurel-wreathed vases have vine-stem handles emerging from vine-festooned heads of nymphs or bacchantae. Their form and 'herm' handles relate to vase patterns published in Marie-Thérèse Reboul Vien's Suite de Vases Composée dans le Goût de l'Antique. Dessinée Par Joseph Marie Vien, Paris, 1760.

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