AFTER CLAUDE-MICHEL CLODION, CIRCA 1880
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A pair of French bronze and marble urns
After Claude-Michel Clodion, Circa 1880
Each with a waisted neck, above a bulbous body raised all-around with classical figures, flanked to each side by a pair of mask handles, on turned socle, with laurel-cast foot, on stepped black marble fluted plinth
24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) high (2)
After Claude-Michel Clodion, Circa 1880
Each with a waisted neck, above a bulbous body raised all-around with classical figures, flanked to each side by a pair of mask handles, on turned socle, with laurel-cast foot, on stepped black marble fluted plinth
24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) high (2)
Sale room notice
These vases, cast with six vestals sacrificing a ram, are after an original terracotta model dated 1766 by Claude-Michel Clodion (now in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts). Although unmarked, this pair may have been cast by the Parisian firm of Ferdinand Barbedienne who edited the vase in bronze in three sizes, the present being the largest.