拍品 152
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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BROWN QUARTZ POT-POURRI VASES, each with domed lid surmounted by a bifurcated cone-finial, the fretwork and pierced Vitruvian-scroll frieze above a tapering body garlanded with swagged lion-pelts and with tamed lion-mask handles, above a foliate-cast base and turned spreading socle with vine and acanthus-cast clasp, upon a stepped and beaded moulded spreading plinth, 19th Century, one lid chipped

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BROWN QUARTZ POT-POURRI VASES, each with domed lid surmounted by a bifurcated cone-finial, the fretwork and pierced Vitruvian-scroll frieze above a tapering body garlanded with swagged lion-pelts and with tamed lion-mask handles, above a foliate-cast base and turned spreading socle with vine and acanthus-cast clasp, upon a stepped and beaded moulded spreading plinth, 19th Century, one lid chipped
11¼in. (28.5cm.) wide; 17in. (43cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

A closely related Grecian vase, supplied by the Mercier Antoine-Charles Dulac (mâitre 1770) is now in the Palais des Lazienki, Warsaw (discussed in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes dovés Francais du XVIII siècle, Paris 1987, pp.72-3, fig. 66-7)