拍品 1271
1271
A PAIR OF LEAD URNS, each with a circular spreading lid decorated with a repeating foliate design and surmounted by a finial in the form of a flower blossom, the handles each in the form of entwined double-headed snakes, the upper part of the body decorated with vine, above a frieze of classical figures, the lower part gadrooned, on circular spreading foot with a repeating foliate motif and egg-and-dart border (weathered; repairs; one lid later), late 19th/early 20th century

细节
A PAIR OF LEAD URNS, each with a circular spreading lid decorated with a repeating foliate design and surmounted by a finial in the form of a flower blossom, the handles each in the form of entwined double-headed snakes, the upper part of the body decorated with vine, above a frieze of classical figures, the lower part gadrooned, on circular spreading foot with a repeating foliate motif and egg-and-dart border (weathered; repairs; one lid later), late 19th/early 20th century
18in. (45.7cm.) wide; 30in. (76.2cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

These are inspired by the Neo-Attic Amphora vase by Sosibos, now in the Louvre, other versions are illustrated at Myddelton House, see L. Weaver, English Leadwork, It's Art & History, London 1909, pp. 201, see J. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, 1991, pp. 249, cast-iron versions of the present vases with their serpent handles are illustrated in the 1874 catalogue of A. Handyside and Co. of Derby and London