A PAIR OF NEOCLASSIC STYLE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE TAZZE

LATE 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NEOCLASSIC STYLE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE TAZZE
Late 20th Century
Each with patinated bronze dish with reeded foot supported on the heads of three bearded male figures, on an incurving tripartite base mounted with ram's heads and lion's masks with garlands
17½in. (44.5cm.) high, 14in. (35.5cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

These bronze tazza on plinths with festooned bacchic masks of lions and rams are conceived in the 19th-century antique manner, and their tazza-supporting Atlas caryatids derive from a Roman antiquity illustrated in Giovanni Battista Piranesi's, Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Rome, 1778, pls. 50-51.

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