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Lot 223
Sale 5349 - English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
May 19, 2015
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$3,000 -
5,000
Lot Description
Fine French gilt bronze twin handled urn after the model by Claude Ballin, third quarter 19th century
Mounted with winged dragon handles, the urn cast to show a vignette depicting Apollo shooting the dragon of Pytho opposite a frieze depicting Apollo and Daphne metamorphizing into a laurel tree, raised on circular base and square plinth signed in cast "Eug. Cornu & Cie Paris", and marble base.
H: 26 1/4, W: 20, D: 14 1/2 in.