A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND RED GRANITE POT-POURRIS

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND RED GRANITE POT-POURRIS
Each with an urn-shaped body decorated with a winged male figure and a dancing maiden centred by a flaming altar, the reverse with a figure of Victory on a palmette, to each side with a reeded foliate handle issuing from a male mask, the flaring top with gadrooned edge surmounted by a detachable domed and pierced lid with a palmette rim and a an anthemion and floral cap surmounted by a pine-cone finial, the lower section of the vase with a lotus-leaf and acanthus cap and standing on a foliate-cast waisted and spreading circular foot with lotus-leaf rim, above a square plinth and stepped part-gadrooned base, one lid with restoration to top
19 in. (48 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

This pair of pot-pourri vases relates in its iconography and taste to a pot-pourri vase of circa 1815 illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 364, fig. 5.12.7. A further pair with ormolu bases and flute-playing putti seated on the handles was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 21 May 1994, lot 121.

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