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A PAIR OF LEAD URNS

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A PAIR OF LEAD URNS
Each with ram-mask handles above an egg-and-dart frieze, a scrolling entwined acanthus frieze and a lappeted body, on a waisted lotus-leaf plinth, variations in size, restorations, later plinths, one ram-mask handle replaced
One: 27 in. (69 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) diam.
The other: 30 in. (76.5 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

The late Sir R. V. Sutton, Bt., Benham House, Newbury, Berkshire, sold in these Rooms, 13 June 1968, lot 1.

Lot Essay

The krater-shaped urns, conceived in the George III antique manner, have bacchic ram-mask handles while their fluted bowls are imbricated with scales tied by a flowered acanthus ribbon. This pattern of vase featured in a 1930s trade catalogue of H. Crowther Ltd. (J. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 367)

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