Live Auction 18793The Collector: Property from Four American Collections
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE EWERS
Lot 778 The Property of a Private Collector, Chicago

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE EWERS

ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-ANTOINE RAVRIO, CIRCA 1805-10

Closed16 October 2019

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE EWERS
ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-ANTOINE RAVRIO, CIRCA 1805-10
With griffin-form handles terminating above satyr masks
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

By repute, Jeremy Ltd., London.

Specialist note

A portrait in the collection of The Louvre dated 1812, depicts the bronzier André-Antoine Ravrio (d.1814) at his desk with a near identical ewer (exhibiting the same griffin-handle), beside him.