A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE TABLE ORNAMENTS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

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)

Lot Essay

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).