A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND GRIOTTE MARBLE VASES

CIRCA 1810

Details

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND GRIOTTE MARBLE VASES
Circa 1810
Each of urn form with lid and with relief after the Antique, on a square stepped base decorated with Mercury masks, the pierced elements to top sections possibly replaced
18½in. (47cm.) high, 6in. (15cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Sold Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1995, lot 86

Lot Essay

A similar pair of vases in the Pilaster Room at Pavlovsk is illustrated A. Kuchumov, Pavlovsk Palace and Park, St. Petersburg, 1975, no. 201. Another pair now in the Hermitage Museum was supplied to Emperor Paul I by the dealer Guillaume Culot.