Live Auction 2435500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, including Oriental Carpets
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE URNS AND COVERS
Lot 157 PROPERTY FROM AN OHIO ESTATE (LOTS 134-205)

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE URNS AND COVERS

LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed15 April 2011

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE URNS AND COVERS
LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with domed lid with a pinecone final, above a fluted bulbous body flanked by a pair of bearded-mask handles, on short hairy paw feet and shaped plinth
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high (2)

A Private Collection: Volume II, Sotheby's, New York, 19 April 2007, lot 227.

Specialist note

These dramatic vases and covers are based upon a design for cassolettes displayed in Louis XV's appartement at Versailles. While the present lot is unmarked, Alfred Beurdeley was known to have copied the model and exhibited an alabaster example in his stand at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle.