Eugène Cornu d. 1875 A GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED BLUE TURQUIN AND BRÈCHE ROUGE JARDINIÈRE PARIS, CIRCA 1870

centered to front and back with gilt-bronze reliefs depicting the garden of love after the antique, the sides with flower bouquets, and flanked to each corner with a caryatid, signed E. CORNU. PARIS to one corner mount, set with a lead liner.    

Overall in very good condition with the usual minor chips to marble edges. The gilt-bronze with slight tarnishing in places.
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The sculptor and bronzier Eugène Cornu (d 1875) worked prolifically in marble and had an interest in Algerian marble and onyx mines. Working closely with G. Viot, he exhibited extensively at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867. He also exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1874 and was a director of a bronze foundry as well as several other establishments in Paris.