• A Taste for Luxury: Two Great  auction at Christies

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    A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from America's Gilded Age

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    • A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATIN
    Lot 1046

    A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE, BLUED METAL AND WHITE MARBLE BRULE PARFUMS

    19TH/20TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    USD 16,250

    Estimate

    USD 15,000 - USD 25,000

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    A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE, BLUED METAL AND WHITE MARBLE BRULE PARFUMS
    19TH/20TH CENTURY
    After the model by François Rémond, each with fruiting finial above a pierced frieze supported by three female caryatids with floral swags on an incurved tripartite base
    26½ in. (67 cm.) high (2)

    Provenance

    The Greenberg Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 2004, lot 16.

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