A pair of empire patinated bronze and fire gilded ewers, Circa 1810 1810

Unknown artist

38 ⨯ 12 ⨯ 6.50 cm
€ 12.500

Gude & Meis Antique clocks and Music Boxes

• About the artwork
  The ewers
  These two elegant ewers have a griotte red marble base and are decorated with masks and seahorses in the patinated bronze middle.
  The handles form into winged griffins resting on, but not attached to the spout.
  The bronze work is finely ciseled and the fire gilding is in excellent condition.
  
  The style
  The winged griffins are in the same style as the mythical winged female figures
  with which the well-known bronzier Claude Galle decorated handles of urns and vases. Examples of which can be found in:
  H. Ottomeyer & P. Pörschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Münich, 1986, vol. I, FIGs. 5.12.6 and 5.12.9, pp. 364-365
  A. de Gourcuff (ed.), Pavlovsk: The Palace and the Park, Paris, 1993, p. 121.
  
• About the artist

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