Lot 136
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A SET OF FOUR ORMOLU AND BRONZE ATHENIENNES, each with domed lids with gadrooned brace and a pine cone finial, above the dished bowl with gadrooned edge and fruiting and foliate finial, on three winged female herms with feathered head-dress issuing from a palmette and fruiting brace on paw feet, centred by a tapering triangular plinth with lotus angles and a maiden carrying two torches to each side, and surmounted by a shallow urn with three flaming spouts, on a breakfront circular socle

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A SET OF FOUR ORMOLU AND BRONZE ATHENIENNES, each with domed lids with gadrooned brace and a pine cone finial, above the dished bowl with gadrooned edge and fruiting and foliate finial, on three winged female herms with feathered head-dress issuing from a palmette and fruiting brace on paw feet, centred by a tapering triangular plinth with lotus angles and a maiden carrying two torches to each side, and surmounted by a shallow urn with three flaming spouts, on a breakfront circular socle
15¾in. (40cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

A related Athénienne with a torch-bearing figure of Hymen applied to the spreading triangular stem is in the Karlsruhe Badisches Landesmuseum (G3785, illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Proschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, Vol. II, p. 362, fig. 5.12.1). A closely related pair of brûle-parfums was in the René Fribourg Collection, sold Sotheby's London, 17 October 1963, lot 645. A further pair were sold anonymously in these Rooms, 10 June 1993, lot 1. An identical pair are in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence

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