A French silvered-bronze athénienne by Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, last quarter 19th century

A French silvered-bronze athénienne by Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris, last quarter 19th century

with a revolving liner, the frieze applied with bucrania suspending ribbon-tied berried laurel swags above a border of bellflowers on a stippled ground above three seated female sphinxes issuing stylised foliage and scrolls on lion monopodia cast with the mask of Hercules, scrolling foliage and anthemions joined by stretchers, raised on a concave-sided triform marble base on a further thin silvered-bronze base, inscribed to the tripod base 'F. BARBEDIENNE'

103.3cm. high, 41.5cm. diameter; 3ft. 4 3/8 in., 1ft. 4 1/4.