• 500 Years Decorative Arts Euro auction at Christies

    Sale 2601

    500 Years Decorative Arts Europe Including Oriental Carpets

    New York

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    29 - 30 November 2012

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    • A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTE
    Lot 89

    A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED LEVANTE ROSSO MARBLE COVERED URNS

    CIRCA 1810

    Price realised

    USD 18,750

    Estimate

    USD 15,000 - USD 25,000

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    A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED LEVANTE ROSSO MARBLE COVERED URNS
    CIRCA 1810
    Each campana form urn with cast panel of figures dancing with garlands, on a square base with the face of Mercury to three sides
    18½ in. (47 cm.) high (2)

    Provenance

    Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 May, 2003, lot 13.

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    Lot Essay

    A similar pair of vases in the Pilaster Room at Pavlosk is illustrated in A. Kuchumov, Pavlosk Palace and Park, 1975, no. 201. Another pair now in the Hermitage Museum was supplied to Emperor Paul I by the dealer Guillaume Culot. A third pair was sold by Yves Mikaeloff, Christie's New York, 21 May 1997, lot 412 and a further pair, reputedly given by Prince Murat (d. 1944), thence by descent to Baron Lejeune, was sold anonymously, Christie's London, 2 December, 1998, lot 91.

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