A PAIR OF RESTAURATION PATINATED BRONZE EWERS
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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION PATINATED BRONZE EWERS

POSSIBLY ENGLISH, AFTER SIGISBERT-FRANOIS MICHEL (1728-1811), CIRCA 1820-40

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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION PATINATED BRONZE EWERS
POSSIBLY ENGLISH, AFTER SIGISBERT-FRANOIS MICHEL (1728-1811), CIRCA 1820-40
Each modelled with anthropomorphic figures and beasts, one draped with laurel swags, the other with fruiting vines on fluted socles and square plinth bases
14¼ in. (44 cm.) high (2)

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In 1774, Sigisbert François Michel exhibited a pair of plaster ewers surmounted by a triton and a satyr in the Académie de Saint-Luc, Paris. This prototype was the basis for a number of subsequent ewers in malachite (a pair of which can be seen in the Wallace Collection, London), biscuit porcelain (with a pair in the Musée d'Orlans) and bronze (with a pair in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris).
Wedgwood versions in basalt and jasperware could also be found in England after 1775 when John Flaxman Sr. presented Josiah Wedgwood with a plaster model based on Michel's original model - the former version of which can be seen in the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston.
Closely related examples executed in bronze include a pair sold 'Park West, The Property of a Private Collector', 22 May 2003, lot 39 (/P14,340), a further pair sold Christie's, New York, 17-18 May 2005, lot 519, and more recently a pair sold Christie's, Paris, 17 December 2009, lot 152.