A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN SERPENTINE MARBLE TAZZA by Sormani Paris, the oval dished body with ribbon-tied reeded rim with acanthus clasps to the ends surmounted by twin-scrolled serpent handles, the gadrooned tapering body with beaded collar and spreading oval socle upon a square guilloche-panelled base, stamped SORMANI PARIS, 19th Century, restorations

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN SERPENTINE MARBLE TAZZA by Sormani Paris, the oval dished body with ribbon-tied reeded rim with acanthus clasps to the ends surmounted by twin-scrolled serpent handles, the gadrooned tapering body with beaded collar and spreading oval socle upon a square guilloche-panelled base, stamped SORMANI PARIS, 19th Century, restorations
18in. (45.5cm.) Wide; 11¼in. (28.5cm.) High; 10in. (25.5cm.) Deep

Lot Essay

The firm of Paul Sormani was established in the rue Charlot (1867-1934).

Designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner of the 1760s, the prototype for this plinth-supported urn, with reed-gadrooned bowl clasped by tied-snake handles, is thought to have been a marble urn belonging to the duc de Choiseul (d.1780) now in the J. Paul Getty Musuem, California. (see G. Wilson, 'Acquisitions', J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 8, Los Angeles, 1980, no 2.).

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