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A pair of French patinated- and gilt-bronze ewers, first half 19th century, after a model by Claude Galle

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2,000 - 3,000 EUR

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with griffin-shaped handles, the body highlighted with winged horses and a Mercury mask, on a foot decorated with foliage and a guilloche motif, resting on a red griotte marble base

 

38cm high, 11cm wide; 15in., 4 ⅜ in.

Related literature :

H. Ottomeyer & P.Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, Munich, 1986, vol. I, pp. 364-365, figs. 5.12.6 et 5.12.9.

M.F. Dupuy-Baylet, L'Heure, le Feu, la Lumière. Les bronzes du Mobilier national 1800-1870, Dijon, 2010, p. 248,