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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED RHODONITE MARBLE CASSOLETTES
Each with reversible beaded bobêche cast with Vitruvian scrolls and pine-cone finial above an ovoid vessel fitted with foliate-cast handles on a reeded pedestal fitted with floral swags, on beaded rectangular leaf-tip banded plinth, possibly russian-10in. (25cm.) high
A virtually identical pair from the Fermor-Hesketh Collection was sold, Christie's London, 23 June 1988, lot 110. (2)
Each with reversible beaded bobêche cast with Vitruvian scrolls and pine-cone finial above an ovoid vessel fitted with foliate-cast handles on a reeded pedestal fitted with floral swags, on beaded rectangular leaf-tip banded plinth, possibly russian-10in. (25cm.) high
A virtually identical pair from the Fermor-Hesketh Collection was sold, Christie's London, 23 June 1988, lot 110. (2)