A pair of gilt-bronze mounted and carved cornicopiae horns Restauration, second quarter 19th century

each carved in high relief and engraved in Chinoiserie style with a figural landscape and characters, the rim mounted with a border of finely cast grapes and vines, terminating in a gilt-bronze ram's head, on stepped red marble base

In overall good condition with the inevitable minor dents, marks and scratches due to age and use, minor rim frits to the marble bases. Both horns with the mounts to upper rim slightly loose, one rim with small chips to the horn. One horn loose in the ram's head shoe, the other slightly loose.
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