Miscellaneous >> LARGE MARBLE & ORMOLU CASSOLETTES

A Large Pair of 19th Century Marble and Ormolu Cassolettes, Vases.

Each with white marble bodies, of classical vase shape, the tops mounted with finials in the form of blossoming flower buds, with leaf and flower rosettes.  The collars with broad bands of anthemions and rising leaves.  The handles scrolled to the top, and finished with petal heads, from which sweep leaves and berries. The handles finished to the bottom with broadening layered leaves.  The vases sitting in leaf cast cup socles, above bases sweeping outward in a concave shape to bands of leaf and dart decoration.  The whole on square plinth bases, finished to the bottom edge with ormolu mouldings, decorated with rising leaves and rope twist borders.

Very nice quality, in very good condition and an impressive size.

Date c 1840.

Height 23 1/2 inches, width 11 inches, depth 7 inches.