AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE EWER

CIRCA 1810, ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-ANTOINE RAVRIO

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE EWER
CIRCA 1810, ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-ANTOINE RAVRIO
The amphora body mounted with snakes and masks, the handle with griffin's mask terminal, on a Rouge-Griotte plinth, minor losses to mounts
15 in. (38 cm.) high

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Adrian Hume Sayer

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A portrait in the collection of The Louvre of 1812 depicts the bronzier André-Antoine Ravrio (d.1814) at his desk with a near identical ewer (exhibiting the same griffin-handle), beside him.

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