A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN SERPENTINE URN AND COVER

BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, AFTER THE ORIGINAL MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIERE, CIRCA 1880

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN SERPENTINE URN AND COVER
BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, AFTER THE ORIGINAL MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIERE, CIRCA 1880
The domed lid with a berried finial, above the neck with a foliate-cast rim, flanked by bacchic nymph holding a garland, on circular socle with stepped plinth and guilloche frieze, inscribed to the side edge P. SORMANI PARIS
16½ in. (42 cm.) high

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Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 6 October 2000, lot 43.

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This vase is after the celebrated model commissioned by Louis-Marie-Augustine, 5th duc d'Aumont (1709-1782), premiere valet de Chambre du roi, for the hôtel d'Aumont, Place Louis XV, Paris. Executed in green serpentine cut by the Genoese sculptor Augustine Bocciardi (fl. 1760-1790) and mounted in ormolu by the ciseleur-doreur Pierre Gouthiere (maître in 1758), they were included in the sale of the duc d'Aumont's collection on 12-21 December 1782, conducted by the marchands-merciers P.F. Tulliot and A.J. Paillet and acquired by Louis XVI himself for the museum he planned to establish at the Louvre where they remain to this day (P. Verlet, Les Bronzes dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 351).