A pair of French gilt-bronze-mounted white marble vases and covers in Louis XVI style, 19th century

each of tapering baluster form, with a domed cover with berried finial, pierced guilloche cast neck, lion mask handles on a trumpet foot cast with acanthus, oak leaves and acorns, one inscribed with initials and inventory number on the underside of the cover

In overall good original condition. The piece is dirty and would benefit from a light clean according to taste. Some white residue on the neck of both which can be cleaned off. Some miniscule chips to the square marble bases which are hardly noticeable.
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Comparative Literature:
S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974, plate 242.

Designed in the goût grec style, these vases, with their bacchic lion-mask Grecian mounts, are closely related to the central vase of a garniture formerly in the collection of Mme. Jules Fribourg, illustrated by Eriksen, op. cit., pl. 242.

A bleu-du-roi Sèvres porcelain vase with very similar neck and handle mounts was sold at Sotheby's on 12^th June 2002, lot 365.

A porcelain garniture with similar mounts was sold from the Jaime Ortiz-Patiño Collection, Sotheby's New York, 20th May 1992, lot 31.