A PAIR OF ITALIAN ALABASTER AND GILT-BRONZE VASES AND AN ITALIAN AGATE AND GILT-BRONZE URN, the former each with ring-turned collar flanked by scrolled winged caryatid handles, the ovoid body applied with seraphims and pierced rosette and strapwork clasps, on a stiff-leaf base and gadrooned and laurel-bound domed spreading socle, the alabaster probably later, 17th Century, possibly Venetian; the latter with later ring-turned finial above a foliate cast neck issuing scrolled foliate handles, the turned tapering body above scrolling foliage, on a later domed stepped spreading socle, late 17th Century | Christie's

Lot 8

A PAIR OF ITALIAN ALABASTER AND GILT-BRONZE VASES AND AN ITALIAN AGATE AND GILT-BRONZE URN, the former each with ring-turned collar flanked by scrolled winged caryatid handles, the ovoid body applied with seraphims and pierced rosette and strapwork clasps, on a stiff-leaf base and gadrooned and laurel-bound domed spreading socle, the alabaster probably later, 17th Century, possibly Venetian; the latter with later ring-turned finial above a foliate cast neck issuing scrolled foliate handles, the turned tapering body above scrolling foliage, on a later domed stepped spreading socle, late 17th Century

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ALABASTER AND GILT-BRONZE VASES AND AN ITALIAN AGATE AND GILT-BRONZE URN, the former each with ring-turned collar flanked by scrolled winged caryatid handles, the ovoid body applied with seraphims and pierced rosette and strapwork clasps, on a stiff-leaf base and gadrooned and laurel-bound domed spreading socle, the alabaster probably later, 17th Century, possibly Venetian; the latter with later ring-turned finial above a foliate cast neck issuing scrolled foliate handles, the turned tapering body above scrolling foliage, on a later domed stepped spreading socle, late 17th Century
The alabaster vases 5¼in. (13.5cm) high; 2¾in. (7cm) wide
The agate urn 3½in. (9cm) high (3)

Lot Essay

A closely related pair of gilt-metal and blue glass vases is in the James A. de Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor, while a further related emerald-green glass vase is in the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut (Mus. No. 1917.354) (see R. J. Charleston and M. Archer, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Glass and Stained Glass, London, 1977, no. 31, p. 132-3)

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