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

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 EUR

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Description

60cm. high, 55cm. wide

each neck cast with rosette and lattice, centred by a band of laurel, above gadrooned lower section, flanked by large scroll handles terminating in foliate masks, raised on circular foot cast with acanthus

Literature

Related literature

John P.S. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament. 300 years of creativity: Artists, manufacturers & materials, Suffolk 1998, p. 144, plate 3:14.

Catalogue Note

Copy after a pair of vases flanking the Parterre du Nord, Versailles, circa 1670.