Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra

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Lot 278
  • 278

A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted black marble urns

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • height 17 3/4 in.
  • 45 cm
the circular tapered molded body with fixed domed lid fitted with an ormolu grape cluster finial, the center with an ormolu frieze of fruiting grape vines flanked by ormolu handles cast with satyrs' masks; raised on a circular socle above a square plinth simulating brickwork.



The plinths stamped N.16

Provenance

Madame Bouvier

Collection of Hubert de Saint Senoch, sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, December 4, 1983, lot 218

Literature

G. Wannenes, Les Bronzes ornementaux et objets montés, Milan, 2004, p. 350.