Lot 184
184
ANOTHER PROPERTY
A PAIR OF ORMOLU JARDINIERES, each with four faceted finials and ring handles, the bowl pierced and cast with scrolls and foliage, centred by a female mask to the front and back, with a zinc liner, on four square tapering legs with canted angles, united by acanthus cast 'X' frame with central square baluster upright, on hoof monopodiae, each with twin acanthus-cast scrolled ram's masks, (some verdigris, the liners replaced) late 19th Century

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU JARDINIERES, each with four faceted finials and ring handles, the bowl pierced and cast with scrolls and foliage, centred by a female mask to the front and back, with a zinc liner, on four square tapering legs with canted angles, united by acanthus cast 'X' frame with central square baluster upright, on hoof monopodiae, each with twin acanthus-cast scrolled ram's masks, (some verdigris, the liners replaced) late 19th Century
28¾in. (73cm.) wide, 39¾in. (101cm.) high, 16½in. (42cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

Designed in the rich Louis XIV 'arabesque' manner of the 1860s, the frieze of trellised 'sarcophagus' plant-chest, is embellished with a bacchante-mask cartouche on a fretted ribbon-band of acanthus-scrolls. Ringed vases on scroll corner-brackets are supported by husk-festooned 'herm' feet, which terminate in voluted bacchic-ram monopodiae, while arched stretchers support a pyramidical-lidded vase.
A related tripod jardiniere dated to the 1860s is illustrated in
C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 257.

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