PAIR OF RENAISSANCE STYLE BRONZE EWERS AFTER NICOLAS DELAUNAY, BASED ON DESIGNS BY ENEA VICO
ONE 18TH CENTURY, THE OTHER 19TH CENTURY
£4,375
Auction: 14 January 2015 at 11:00 GMT
Description
with gadrooned spouts and panther handles, the tapering bodies cast with masks, portrait roundels and entrelac, on domed leaf cast and reeded circular bases (2)
Dimensions
32.5cm high
Footnote
Note: This ewer is directly inspired by a silver-gilt ewer made by Delaunay in 1696-97 for the private altar service of Cardinal Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval. The unusual form of the handle, modelled as a standing panther, first appears Enea Vico's studies of antique vases, published in Italy in 1533.
Provenance: The Collection of Lady Lanesborough, previously at Swithland Hall, Leicestershire.