A pair of French gilt-bronze and marble urns

with a berried foliate finial, the tapering body cast with a band of frolicking bacchic cherubs the other with amorini and chariots on an inverted bell shaped socle within a berried laurel wreath, one bearing the signature Christofle and numbered 67/80 , the other France and the number 1171c, on a veined cream and black marble plinth together with a pair of veined white marble pedestals the square tops with foliate carved capitals on a turned stem and square base,

In good condition. Colour more golden than in the catalogue photograph. Some very minor chips along the bottom edge of the marble base of one and there are minor restorations to the marble base of the other.
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