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LATE 18TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU AND PORPHYRY CASSOLETTES
Late 18th Century
Each with a domed lid doubling as a drip-pan and nozzle when reversed, above an ovoid body mounted with masks and hung with swags of drapery, the base of the body and the spreading foot decorated wtih lotus leaves, on a cylindrical socle mounted with two domed paterae linked by chains and hung with tassles, on a square plinth, one chain missing
11 3/4 in. (30 cm) high (2)
Late 18th Century
Each with a domed lid doubling as a drip-pan and nozzle when reversed, above an ovoid body mounted with masks and hung with swags of drapery, the base of the body and the spreading foot decorated wtih lotus leaves, on a cylindrical socle mounted with two domed paterae linked by chains and hung with tassles, on a square plinth, one chain missing
11 3/4 in. (30 cm) high (2)