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EXCEPTIONAL SUITE OF TWO ANTIQUE ATHENIENNES
In gilt bronze …
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529
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EXCEPTIONAL SUITE OF TWO ANTIQUE ATHENIENNES
In gilt bronze …
See original version (French)
Estimate €20,000 - €30,000
Voluntary lot
Description
EXCEPTIONAL SUITE OF TWO ANTIQUE ATHENIENNES
In gilt bronze and agate cups, decorated with heads of love, birds, cows, lion's muffle, on a quadripod base centred with foliage and twisted snakes. The base engraved with attributes of war, hunting and science or Masonic attributes and the inscription Jacob the Wise on behalf of Matthew the Wise, born on 30 April 1722 and died on 7 April 1797, Vologda, family Moudrov or Moudroff in Cyrilic. On a red veined marble base. The bowls in green agate.
Russia, late 18th, early 19th century.
Height 21.5 cm
Please note.
The zoomorphic supports are reminiscent of the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The Moudrov family were doctors.
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