Sale 8512
New York, Park Avenue
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30 - 31 October 1996
Price realised
USD 10,350
Estimate
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE TABLE ORNAMENTS early 19th century Cast as Psyche holding a vase and Cupid picking up a butterfly and a rose, on an oval base mounted on one side with cupids on leaf-tip-cast plinth 12½in. (31cm.) high, 7½in. (19cm.) wide (2)
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A pair of virtually identical ornaments was sold Sotheby's Monaco, 4 March 1984, lot 570. The figure of Cupid follows the celebrated model by Antoine-Denis Chaudet, first exhibited in 1802 (see also lot 399 in this sale).
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