Lot 64
64
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PATINATED BRONZE CASSOLETTES, each with removable domed top adorned with a tiered foliate and fruiting finial and enclosing a spirally gadrooned nozzle, the ovoid boidy with triple monopodiae supports crowned by ram's-heads and with further ram's-heads suspending chains, the turned stem with foliate neck, on moulded circular socle and white marble plinth base edged with a ribbon-twist band, late 18th/early 19th Century, restorations, possibly English

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PATINATED BRONZE CASSOLETTES, each with removable domed top adorned with a tiered foliate and fruiting finial and enclosing a spirally gadrooned nozzle, the ovoid boidy with triple monopodiae supports crowned by ram's-heads and with further ram's-heads suspending chains, the turned stem with foliate neck, on moulded circular socle and white marble plinth base edged with a ribbon-twist band, late 18th/early 19th Century, restorations, possibly English
10¾in. (27.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Closely related examples of this familiar model were sold in these Rooms, 7 July 1988, lot 2 and 10 April 1986, lot 4 and from the collection of Orchardleigh Park, Christie's house sale, 21-22 September 1987, lot 406.

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