Pair French Gilt Bronze and Cut Crystal Campana Form Vases in Louis XVI Style

Pair of antique (19th century) French silvered bronze ewers in the French Louis XVI style, after the original designs by Sigisbert-Francois Michel (1728-1811). One with the figure of...

Pair of very large (45 inch tall) gilt bronze mounted French crystal glass urns or vases of ovoid form with gadrooning at the shoulder and stylized guilloche motif around the waist, ...

An elegant pair of French Louis XVI st. Baccarat cut crystal and silvered bronze vases. Each vase is raised by a chased square silvered bronze base decorated by chased acanthus leave...

These truly exceptional and rare antique Louis XVI period vases have been sculpted from agate, a precious and highly sought-after stone. The vases are set on square agate bases with gilt bronze laurel wreath socles. The burgundy and claret agate bodies of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze acanthus leaf ornamentation, and twin lion masks joined by draped swags above. The lids of the vases are mounted with gilt bronze, surmounted by pine cone finials. The vases' design is attributed to the late 18th century, French clockmaker Martin Baffert. Baffert worked with a number of Parisian bronziers including Jean-Nicholas Fremont, Nicolas-Guillaume Jourdan and Francois-Robert Leguel, who assisted in the creation of his designs. This pair of vases is very similar to another pair of vases which Baffert designed, which form part of a clock garniture currently in the Rothschild collection at Waddesdon Manor. The Rothschild vases...