Description
Pair heavy vintage bronze urns of
Campagna shape with twin mask head handles.
The large French antique urns or
mantle vase with well shaped flared bowls with reeded edges and turned socle.
The vase top resting on ornate square four sided
pedestal base with bas relief panels in the french Empire manner.
Originally these types of cassolette vases would
have been used as mantle urns or for the centre of a table as they are finished
all round.
It may have contained a bouquets
of hand made silk flowers or potpourri adorning an ornate fireplace.
These French bronze urns are a
20th century recast of an antique Empire period vase by the well known Paris
foundry of MIGNON
French mid 20th Century in the Napoleonic Empire manner of 1810
Overall
Dimensions
Height 35cm
Width 15cm
Depth 15 cm
Weight 7 kg the pair
Price AUD $1100 the pair |