AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE EWER
CIRCA 1810, ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-ANTOINE RAVRIO
The amphora body mounted with snakes and masks, the handle with griffin's mask terminal, on a Rouge-Griotte plinth, minor losses to mounts
15 in. (38 cm.) high
A portrait in the collection of The Louvre of 1812 depicts the bronzier André-Antoine Ravrio (d.1814) at his desk with a near identical ewer (exhibiting the same griffin-handle), beside him.