CIRCA 1805, ONE GADROONED RIM REPLACED, WITH ASSOCIATED CANDELABRA BASKETS

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU TAZZE
Circa 1805, one gadrooned rim replaced, with associated candelabra baskets
Each with a dished top with a gadrooned ring supporting an associated pierced basket cast with grapes and vines intersected by a thyrsus supporting a ring, with six scrolled candle-branches, on a concave-sided triform base cast with an alternating band of flowers and lotus leaves, the underside of both with the painted inventory number 203 in red ink, one gadrooned rim is replaced, stamped CHI on the back of one apron mount
19in. (49cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 16 December 1998, lot 223, (£45,500).

Lot Essay

A pair of ormolu vases of this model, lacking the pierced top section and branches and decorated with bronze ornementation on a steel body, is in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, Vol I, p. 362 fig. 5.12.1). Another in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden is illustrated G.Haase-Messner/G. Reinheckel, Kunsthandwerk des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, 1978, p. 157. fig. E.26.

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