CAST AFTER THE MODEL BY CLAUDE BALLIN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV STYLE PATINATED BRONZE TWO-HANDLED URNS
Cast after the model by Claude Ballin, Second half 19th Century
Each of baluster form with raised handles cast with Janus heads and boars' masks, the sides with shells, Greek-key and oak-leaf decoration, on a fluted stem and square platform base, originally with further bases, bases and bodies of vases with small plugged holes from former mounts for electricity
11 in. (28 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

The offered lot is after one of thirteen different pairs of urns of larger size made for the marble parapets separating the Parterre du Nord from the Parterre du Midi at Versailles, where they are still in position. Claude Ballin (1615-1678), goldsmith to Louis XIV was commissioned to design the ensemble which were then modelled by Legendre, Magniere, Tuby and Angulier and cast by Duval after 1665. Several of Ballin's drawings for the Versailles vases are in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Later in the 19th Century, the Versailles urns were copied in various mediums and in reduced sizes by foundries such as Durenne, Dugel, A. Beurdeley, Barbezat et Cie and Barbedienne.

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