Live Auction 5898Christie's Interiors
A GILT-BRONZE SPHINX URN
Lot 260

A GILT-BRONZE SPHINX URN

AFTER CLAUDE BALLIN, 20TH CENTURY

Closed6 January 2009

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GBP 1,125

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A GILT-BRONZE SPHINX URN
AFTER CLAUDE BALLIN, 20TH CENTURY
MOUNTED IN A ROUGE GRIOTTO MARBLE PLINTH
21 IN. (53.3 CM.) HIGH

Specialist note

THIS DESIGN IS BY CLAUDE BALLIN (1615-1678), AND IS ONE OF A PAIR. THE ORIGINAL IS PART OF A SET OF THIRTEEN PAIRS, DESIGNED FOR LOUIS XIV'S FORMAL TERRACED GARDEN'S AT VERSAILLES, THE PARTERRE DU NORD AND THE PARTERRE DU MIDI, CAST BETWEEN 1660 AND 1680.