A French cast-iron vase late 19th century

Estimate

5,000 - 8,000 EUR

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Description

88cm. high, 70cm. wide

the neck cast with grapevine, applied with a frieze of zodiac to the shoulder, flanked by two harpy standing upon satyr masks, centered by a cartouche and laurel wreath enclosing dagger

Literature

John P.S. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament. 300 years of creativity: Artists, manufacturers & materials, Suffolk 1998, p. 146, color plate 40.

Catalogue Note

Copy after a pair flanking the Parterre du Midi, Versailles, circa 1870.