Lot 83
  • 83

A pair of French cast-iron vases, after the model by Claude Ballin (d. 1678) late 19th century

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 EUR
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Description

  • 81 cm. high, 70cm. wide each
each lower body cast with acanthus, with everted egg and dart rim and satyr's mask handles, raised on circular foot and square plinth

Literature

Related literature:
John P.S. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament. 300 years of creativity: Artists, manufacturers & materials, Suffolk 1998, p. 138, plate 3:7.

Catalogue Note

Copy after a pair of vases flanking the Parterre du Nord, Versailles, circa 1870.