Lot 48
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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSSO LEVANTO EWERS
A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED RED JASPER EWERS

THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED RED JASPER EWERS
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with a winged nymph handle above a flared spout and berried acanthus collar above a tapering ovoid body with pierced foliate band and an acanhtus-cast cradle on a waisted circular socle and square panelled base cornered by leaf-cast pad feet
23½ in. (60 cm.) high (2)
Sale room notice
These ewers are red jasper and not rosso Levanto marble as stated in the printed catalogue.

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Lot Essay

These ewers are closely modelled on a pair dated 1815 in patinated and gilt bronze by Claude Galle, illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Próschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol.I, p.364, fig.5.12.6. Another very similar pair are illustrated in Les Bronzes du Mobilier National 1800-1870 (M-F. Dupuy Baylet, p.248, no.134). Other examples are in the Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart and at the Palace of Pavlovsk near Leningrad.

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