A pair of lead vases

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, 19TH CENTURY

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A pair of lead vases
After the Antique, 19th Century
Each with a removable palmette and foliate-cast lid with pomegranite finial, above a waisted neck with ivy, flanked to each side by a scrolling swan-neck handle, centred by a flower-head, above an ovoid body with guilloche and gadroon upper frieze above mythological figures, with a gadrooned lower section, on an egg-and-dart circular socle with a stone plinth; on a square composition stone pedestal with stepped foot
33 in. (85 cm.) high The pedestals: 19 in. (49 cm.) high; 16 in. (41 cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

This form of swan-handled Neo-Attic Amphora vase was popularised in England by the example by Sosibos, now displayed in the Louvre and illustrated in Henry Moses, A Collection of Antique Vases, London, 1814.

A set of four painted cast-iron urns of this model were sold at Christie's Wrotham Park, 4 June 1991 lot 120.

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