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AN EXCEPTIONAL SET OF TWO ANTIQUE ATHENIAN VASES
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556
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AN EXCEPTIONAL SET OF TWO ANTIQUE ATHENIAN VASES
See original version (French)
Estimate €20,000 - €30,000
Voluntary lot
Description
AN EXCEPTIONAL SET OF TWO ANTIQUE ATHENIAN VASES
In gilded bronze and agate cups, decorated with cupids’ heads, birds, a cow and a lion’s muzzle, on a four-legged base centred with foliage and twisted serpents. The base is engraved with symbols of war, hunting and science, or Masonic symbols, and bears the inscription ‘Jacob the Wise’ by Mathieu the Wise, born on 30 April 1722 and died on 7 April 1797, Vologda, the Moudrov or Moudroff family in Cyrillic. On a base of veined red marble. The bowls are made of green agate.
Russia, late 18th–early 19th century.
Height: 21.5 cm
Note.
The zoomorphic supports are reminiscent of the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The Moudrov family were doctors.
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