Fine Antique Pair of Two French Charles-Dix Ormolu Ewers in the Style of Claude-Aimé Chenavard.
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The ewers feature an antique classical -19th-century Neo-Renaissance works - in the style of ornamental designer Claude-Aimé Chenavard.
Each urn with winged herm handle, formed by female figures, and flaring spout above the ovoid body with raised renaissance motifs and applied grotesque masks, on a spreading lobed square foot with scrolled angles and decorated with elaborate relief-molded scrolling acanthus leaves
France - Second quarter 19th century.
Period: Charles Dix
Height: 47 cm. (18.5 inches.)
Base: 17,5 cm. (6,9 inches.)
Weight: 12 kilograms.
Claude-Aimé Chenavard ( 1798- 1838)
Chenavard is known for a "Renaissance vase" originally commissioned by the Sèvres porcelain factory in the 1830s, which was highly successful at the time. Examples of this design exist in various materials, including porcelain and gilt bronze, and are housed in museums such as the Château de Fontainebleau and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
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- W.151
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