A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE TWO-HANDLED GARDEN URNS
A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE TWO-HANDLED GARDEN URNS

19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE TWO-HANDLED GARDEN URNS
19TH CENTURY
Each cast with a mask to each side connected by a fruit garland, flanked by scrolled handles with serpents and masks
40 in. (102 cm.) (2)
來源
The 6th Earl of Rosebery; Sotheby's House Sale, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, 18 May 1977, lot 329.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 October 1997, lot 4.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 May 2003, lot 331.
出版
R. and R. Clark, Mentmore Catalogue, Edinburgh, vol. I, p. 4, cat 5 and 6.

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These impressive bronze vases were almost certainly supplied to Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild as part of the furnishings of his celebrated country residence in Buckinghamshire, Mentmore. This extraordinary building was designed by the architect Joseph Paxton in 1850, whose building of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition in 1851, with which Baron Mayer was involved, was to cement his reputation. Mentmore, which was the first major building project undertaken by the Rothschilds in England, was designed by Paxton in a grandiloquent Elizabethan revival style. These imposing vases, which were probably specifically commissioned for the house, were certainly appropriate for such grand surroundings.

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