A Timeless Model – Nice pair of Ornamental covered vases ovoid in shape on a pedestal in green Campan marble and gilded chiseled bronze mount with decoration Neoclassical of laurel frieze and torus with crossed ribbons, floral garland, pearls and channels, acanthus foliage and goat heads forming handles. Molded marble counter-base in a quadrangular shape with hollowed-out angles. Parisian work from the second half of the 19th century, Louis XVI style.
Made of Campan marble, this elegant and imposing pair of covered ovoid vases rests on a pedestal surrounded by a laurel torus with crossed ribbons, set on a quadrangular base with hollowed-out angles punctuated by a string of pearls.
A rich set of finely chiseled gilded bronzes, clearly inspired by the SNeo-classical style promoted at the end of the 18th century French, dresses it. Set in the upper part in a circular frame with openwork scrolls of grained laurel branches, each vase is flanked by two goat headss plumed with acanthus fleurons; from their collars, a flowered garland blossoms; a foliage of acanthus leaves adorns their base; ovates, gadroons and lanceolate foliage set their cover topped with a pine cone.
The nobility of the materials used (marble/gilded bronze), the sobriety of the ornamental lexicon required as well as the motif of the agoat-headed nses– leitmotif of Neo-classical current- place this pair of covered vases in the worthy lineage of Ornamental vases called “A l’Antique” created in the years 1760-1770 by the architect-ornamentalist Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791)
The decorative arts of the second half of the 19th century acquired from the nobility of the Louis XVI Style were to ensure its formal and aesthetic success.
It should be added that " Closely associated with the memory of Antiquity by their forms and their very materials, marble vases embody the noblest version of the decorative object. Hence, in the 18th as well as in the 19th centuries, "the increasing place given to them within the large collections". ( see: Decorations, furniture and art objects of the Louvre Museum from Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette, Exhibition Cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2014, Notices 186, p.447- Pair of large porphyry vases with goats' heads by the Duke of Richeliet then the Duke of Aumont, 1762-1764 and no. 188, p.451 Vgoat-headed ase of the Duke of Aumont, circa 1775-1780.
