Lot 38
38
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN SERPENTINE MARBLE THREE-BRANCH VASE CANDELABRA, each with ovoid body mounted with ribbon-tied oak leaf swags suspended from satyr-masks, with sprays of summer flowers incorporating the nozzles amidst foliage and poppies, on turned socle cast with acanthus and with laurel collar, on square plinth, drilled for electricity, the ormolu stamped SY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN SERPENTINE MARBLE THREE-BRANCH VASE CANDELABRA, each with ovoid body mounted with ribbon-tied oak leaf swags suspended from satyr-masks, with sprays of summer flowers incorporating the nozzles amidst foliage and poppies, on turned socle cast with acanthus and with laurel collar, on square plinth, drilled for electricity, the ormolu stamped SY
22in. (56cm.) high, excluding fittings (2)

Lot Essay

The exceptionally richly coloured and figured green serpentine is most probably Gabbro dioritico, called granito verde e erbetta, from the Egyptian desert (R. Gnoli, Marmora Romana, 2nd edn., Rome, 1988, fig. 117)

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