Two Louis XVI Style Green Marble and Gilt Bronze Vases

The bodies of this pair of Louis XVI-style vases, measuring nearly two feet in height, are formed from stunning specimens of white marble. Doré bronze mounts in the Louis XVI style p...

Pair of Louis XVI style cassolettes in sea green marble and beautiful gilded and chiseled bronze ornamentation decorated with rams' heads and floral garlands. After a model by Henry...

A pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze and marble Cassolettes. Each with a Verde antico marble urn and cover embellished with foliate garlands and berried finial, supported on ram'...

Mid 19th century pair of Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted and ormulu Cassolettes / decorative urns. Each casollette featuring a covered embellisment foliate garlands, berried fini...

This elegant pair of vases in cut cristal, has a delicate gilt bronze monture. The handles figuring swans hold a flower garland. Both have their original top.

Pair of 19th century Louis XVI style solid 'Rouge Languedoc' marble and gilt bronze-mounted baluster-shaped decorative vases. Standing on a rectangular plinth with concave corners and a round neoclassical foot. The finely chiseled and well-proportioned gilt bronze applications decorated with detailed floral ribboned festoon ornamentation. Attached to the narrow neck of the balusters are swan necks issuing from acanthus leaves and bending down to grab the end of floral festoons to form handles. The The attractive pair of Louis XVI swan handle marble and gilt bronze vases were intended as representative decorative objects on a mantelpiece or stately chest of drawers, framing a large bouquet of flowers or a fine pendule. Nowadays, the pair of vases could also be transformed into an attractive pair of lamps by means of electrification. Comparative Literature: Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Proeschel: Vergoldete Bronzen. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spaetbarock und Klassizismus, Munich 1986, Volume. 1, p. 315 (swan neck vase...