Pair Of Antique Red Marble Tripod Vases In The Louis XVI Style Circa 1880

Pair of table or console pedestals, red Verona marble

Pair Of Corner Consoles In Carved Golden Wood In Baroque Style, Italy Circa 1880 Turquin Blue Marble Shelves

Louis XVI style planter in carved and gilded wood circa 1900 internal diameter: 20.5cm

Pair Of Black Patina Bronze Vases, 19th Century

Crafted in France circa 1880, each cassolette is made of carved red marble and has a bronze base and decorative bronze mounts. The cassolettes have been converted into table lamps an...

Pair of 19th century French rouge marble urns with finely chased doré Bronze and cherub head motif.

A stunning pair of French 19th century Louis XVI st. Rouge marble and ormolu urns. Each urn is raised by a square base with concave corners and a decorative bottom ormolu fillet. The...

FINE PAIR OF NEOCLASSICAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROUGE MARBLE TABLE LAMPS France, probably Paris, circa third quarter of the 19th century Item # 404LBP26Q A magnificent pair of Neoclassical vases converted into lamps, they are designed loosely after the influential vases of Antiquity known as the Medici and Borhese Vases. Those Kraters were executed in marble and have been widely considered the finest and most well-conceived vases of Antiquity. They have been frequently copied and have been the inspiration for many decorative arts, including the present pair. The original vases feature bas-relief scenes in the Medici vase of a seated Iphigenia beneath a statue of Diana surrounded by Achilles, Ulysses and Agamemnon and in the Borghese vase a scene of drunk Silenius, Dionysus wearing his animal skin garment and Ariadne all together accompanied by a procession of revellers. The present example departs from antiquity, focusing only on the Bacchic revellers and have repeated this motif across the field of the vase. They carry in their outstretched arms wreathes and long drapes of their garments, several carrying in hand the Thrysus. The chorus of figures is loosely reminiscent to the Borghese Dancers, also known as the Dancing Hours, executed in bas relief in marble...