A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV WHITE MARBLE URNS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV WHITE MARBLE URNS

Each with stiff-leaf-carved everted rim, the swollen body with a central cartouche-shaped mythological panel to each side depicting a piping satyr with attendant goats, a classical maiden, her chariot drawn by rearing lions, and an archer destroying a winged dragon within laurel frames, surmounted by a satyr-mask flanked by further eagle-headed acanthus and female masks within a strapwork cartouche, above a stiff-leaf and acanthus tapering base and on a Louis XVI gadrooned and spreading socle with entrelac collar and square plinth base
25 (63.5cm.) wide; 31in. (79cm.) high (2)

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These vases, of antique krater form, with nymph-headed cartouche-handles, display bas-reliefs, whose laurel-wreathed frames are headed by satyr-masks and flanked by eagle-heads emerging from acanthus-foliage.

A related set of urns, attributed to Jan Pieter van Bauerscheit (d.1728) remain in the collection of the Dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry at Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland. A bronze version of this patttern is featured in the 1858 catalogue of the celebrated Parisian firm of founders Messrs. Barbezat et Cie (see J. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 351)

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