A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU URNS AND COVERS

Lot 54
12.11.2020 14:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 20 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 54 | A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU URNS AND COVERS
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 25 000
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU URNS AND COVERS

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Each of campana form, cast with dancing maidens in relief, flanked by youths playing instruments and seated on ram's heads, surmounted by a gadrooned lip and a removable domed lid with foliate cap and flaming finial, on a fluted spreading foot and square stepped plinth applied with music-making maidens

23 ½ in. (60 cm.) high

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