Live Auction 17186The Collector: Silver and 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Ceramics & Works of Art
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY VASES
Lot 596 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY VASES

CIRCA 1880

Closed14 November 2019

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GBP 11,250

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY VASES
CIRCA 1880
Each vase of baluster form, flanked by bifricating acanthus leaf handles terminating in fruiting grape leaves, above a cast berried laurel waist and entrelac-mounted base above a stepped square plinth with a beaded border
22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) high; 10 ¾ in. (27.5 cm.) wide; 9 ½ in. (24.2 cm.) deep

Specialist note

The model for the present pair of vases is almost certainly a derivation of an eighteenth-century girandole. An ormolu-mounted alabaster model of nearly identical form, surmounted with seven flowering candlearms and dated 1780, is in the collection of Petit Trianon, Châteaux de Versailles (inv. no. GML11058).