Lot 37
37
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND PATINATED BRONZE EWERS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND PATINATED BRONZE EWERS
LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

In the manner of Claude Galle, each with overscroll spout cast with a grotesque mask above an ovoid vessel fitted with engine-turned banding enclosing entwined serpents and hippocampi, the handles cast as a winged scantily clad maiden, the base fitted with pierced anthemion, above a similarly fitted socle and square plinth (regilt)-24in. (61cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A related pair of ewers attributed to Claude Galle are illustrated in H. Ottomayer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. I, p. 364. Other examples are in the Württembergisches Museum, Stuttgart. A pair of ewers of this model was sold in these Rooms, 24 November 1987, lot 58 and a single ewer, sold in these Rooms, 7 April 1993, lot 40.