A pair of late 19th/early 20th century Italian bronze gueridons, after the Antique, the circular tops with flared rims above lattice cast bands, the panelled frieze with anthemion motifs, on tripod paw feet -- 8in. (20.3cm.) diam. (2)

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A pair of late 19th/early 20th century Italian bronze gueridons, after the Antique, the circular tops with flared rims above lattice cast bands, the panelled frieze with anthemion motifs, on tripod paw feet -- 8in. (20.3cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

The present stands are loosely modelled on an Antique brazier, which formed part of the collection of antiquities discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum and displayed at the Royal Museum at Naples. It was illustrated in R. Gargiulo, Raccolta de Monumenti pui interessanti del Rl, Museo Borbonico, Naples 1825, fig. 79.

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