A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS CENTREPIECES

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS CENTREPIECES
THE GLASS PROBABLY SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, THE MOUNTS 20TH CENTURY

Each with spherical gadrooned bowl, the lid surmounted by a swan with scrolling flowered chest and tail, supported by Atlas standing on a spirally-gadrooned spreading base with fruiting stiff-leaf border and on a stepped circular plinth, on scrolling claw feet with volute and leaf brackets
29in. (73.5cm.) high (2)

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A related glass bowl is illustrated in Yolande Amic, L'opaline française au XIX siècle, Paris, 1952, illus.