A PAIR OF VERDE ANTICO MARBLE AND ORMOLU URNS AND COVERS

A PAIR OF VERDE ANTICO MARBLE AND ORMOLU URNS AND COVERS

POSSIBLY RUSSIAN, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

each urn mounted with dancing nymphs between goat's head handles and beneath a domed cover with flower bud finial, supported by putti on an oval plinth mounted with spread eagles in laural wreaths, on toupie feet (2)

41cm high, 15cm wide

Catalogue Note

These vases are of the same form as an ormolu pair in the Palace of Pavlovsk, and a further pair that were sold from Pavlovsk in the Soviet sales at Rudolph Lepke, "Kunstwerke aus den bestanden Leningrader Museen und Schlosser Eremitage, Palais Michailoff, Gatschina U.A.", Berlin, 6 November 1928, Lots 170-171.The Pavlovsk examples may have been cast in Russia by the bronzier Frederick Bergenfeldt, who was influenced by the French master, Claude Galle. See Christie's, London, 7 July 2005, lot 195 for a Russian, early 19th century pair of this design.