A pair of ewers after the model by claude Galle 19th century

bronze and gilt bronze, each of ovoid form, with a winged female term handle terminating in a cherub mask, the spout with a grotesque male mask cast with oak leaves,  the body cast with hippocamps, serpents and neo-classical female figures in drapery above an alternating band of anthemions and leaves, on a trumpet foot and plinth base; regilded 

Generally good. However the figural handles are loose and detachable and will require retaining screws at the join of the fluted handles and the robes of the figures.
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Comparative Literature:
Antoine Chenevière, Russian Furniture, London, 1988, p. 189, no. 195.
Hans Ottomeyer/Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 364, fig. 5.12.6.

This pair of ewers are after a model by Claude Galle, see Ottomeyer/Pröschel, op. cit., p. 354, fig.5.12.6, for a garniture with a pair of virtually identical vases. Other examples of this model are in the Wüttembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart and the Palace of Pavlovsk St. Petersburg.

Claude Galle (1759-1815), born in Villepreux, and received Master in 1786.He  was one of the leading Parisian bronziers at the end of the 18th century and he supplied bronzes to the Chateaux of Versailles, Compiègne, the Trianons and Fontainebleau together with various Italian Palazzo.