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Lot 240
Sale 5617 - British & European Furniture & Decorative Arts
Oct 17, 2017
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$3,000 -
5,000
Price Realized
$55,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
A large pair of Sèvres style gilt-bronze mounted hand-painted and parcel-gilt porcelain Napoleonic urns late 19th century
Baluster form with forest green ground, with removable covers surmounted by eagle-form finials; the first painted after Antoine-Jean Gros (French, 1771-1835), 'Avant la Bataille! Matinée des Pyramides' to recto and with a scene of Napoleon among the Pyramids to verso; the second depicting 'Après le Combat! Soirée d'Austerlitz' to recto, with a scene of soldiers marching to battle to verso; each indistinctly signed and with pseudo-Sèvres mark to underside of lids. (2).
H: 44 in.