拍品 493
493
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS VASES
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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS VASES

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS VASES
Early 19th Century
The mitre-cut baluster vases flanked by winged seated sphinxes with downswept acanthus foliage, waisted elongated neck and tooled rim, above a ring-turned waisted and spreading socle, on a square shaped plinth with water leaf border, the angles with later gilt-lead foliate clasps
18¾ in. (47.5 cm.) high (2)
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The fashion for this type of jewelled and and ormolu-mounted cut-glass vase was widespread in Paris and throughout Nothern Europe in the early 19th Century. Interestingly, related examples described as being of 'Russian Stone', were designed and produced under the direction of I.A. Ivanov, director of the Imperial glass works from 1815 to 1848 ('St. Petersburg um 1800: Ein goldenes Zeitalter des russischen Zarenreichs; Meisterwerke und autentische Zeugnisse der Zeit aus der Staatlichen Ermitage', Leningrad, Exhibition Catalogue, 1990, cat. no. 344, color plate p. 398).
The fashion for these richly-mounted glass items was also adopted by English collectors, and George Byng (d. 1847), one of the foremost francophile amateurs of the 19th Century, purchased a related but smaller pair, which were sold, Christie's London, 9 June 2005, lot 130.