Live Auction 2504A Trumbauer Estate on The Philadelphia Main Line
A LARGE PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED DEEP-CUT CRYSTAL VASES
Lot 661

A LARGE PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED DEEP-CUT CRYSTAL VASES

BY BACCARAT, PARIS, CIRCA 1890

Closed15 April 2011

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A LARGE PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED DEEP-CUT CRYSTAL VASES
BY BACCARAT, PARIS, CIRCA 1890
Each of baluster-form, applied with scrolled handles mounted with coiled serpents and centered by a cherub mask, on spreading stepped stem and plinth cast with lion masks, on tapering rectangular feet
21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 April 2002, lot 237.

Specialist note

An example of this fine model of vase is in the Musée de la Cristallerie de Baccarat, Paris and is illustrated in Y. Devaux, L'Universée des Bronzes et des Fontes Ornamentales, Pairs, 1978, p. 44.