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    Sale 5915

    THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

    London

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    26 February 1998

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    Lot 56

    A French ormolu-mounted and cut glass garniture

    IN THE EMPIRE REVIVAL STYLE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 51,000

    Estimate

    GBP 25,000 - GBP 35,000

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    A French ormolu-mounted and cut glass garniture
    In the Empire Revival Style, Second half 19th Century
    Comprising a coupe centre-piece and a pair of vases: the oval coupe with rope-twist rim, the sides with alternating rectangular panels of diamond and plain cutting, with faceted lower bowl, with a pair of pierced anthemia-cast handles each headed by a winged sphinx-hermed terminal, on spreading oval fluted stem, rectangular foot and leaf-cast plinth; the vases each with laurel-cast rim above a fluted waisted neck, with similarly cut body and pair of handles, on faceted and fluted spreading stem, square foot and leaf-cast plinth
    The coupe: 20¾ in. (52.6 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) high; 11½ in. (29 cm.) deep
    The vases: 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high (3)

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    Saleroom Notice

    These are crystal glass and most probably by Baccarat.


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