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A PAIR OF REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROUGE ROYALE MARBLE COVERED VASES
A PAIR OF REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROUGE ROYALE MARBLE COVERED VASES

LATE 19TH CENTURY

细节
A PAIR OF REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROUGE ROYALE MARBLE COVERED VASES
Late 19th Century
Each bulbous body with tapering lid mounted overall with scaled straps issuing lions' masks with rings and suspending tasseled drapery swags, on five scrolled lion's paw feet
12in. (30cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

The source for the design of these vases is based on an engraved design for a brule-parfum by Jean Bérain published in Paris circa 1700 (illustrated in French Decorative Arts During the Reign of Louis XIV 1654-1715, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989, p. 52).