Lot 64
64
A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS TWO-HANDLED CAMPANA VASES
FROM THE TABLE SERVICE OF BARON PER ADOLF TAMM (LOTS 62-64)
A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS TWO-HANDLED CAMPANA VASES

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830

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A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS TWO-HANDLED CAMPANA VASES
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830
Each with ormolu rim above a glass waisted body, the cast underside wrapped in vines and with handles to either side, on a leaf-wrapped socle and a square base decorated with masks within a laurel border, on a stiff-leaf-wrapped stepped plinth
17 in. (43 cm.) high
Provenance
Ordered by Baron Per Tamm in Paris in the 1830s;
Thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

These impressive vases, of wine-krater form inspired by the celebrated Borghese and Medici antiquities, are mostly embellished with Bacchic goat-heads and bas-reliefs of festive youths in a triumphal procession riding on goats and panther-drawn chariots. This pair is decorated with grape-vines and is similary related to the Bacchic relief ornaments of these vases in silver designs executed around 1810 by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (d. 1823).

A very similar pair of vases in ormolu was sold at Christie's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 122 (£38,240).

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