A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU VASES
A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU VASES

19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU VASES
19TH CENTURY
The handles modelled as entwined stakes on an amphora body with everted rim and square base
17 in. (43 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The impetus behind the design of these vases is clearly Empire, however, the use of entwined snakes as the handles for vases dates back to antiquity. Such vases were engraved by Piranesi and a Roman marble example survives in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession number: 2007.31a, b).

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