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Antique Napoleon III Marble & Gilt Bronze Louis XVI Style Cassolettes

A pair of Napoleon III gilt bronze and carrera marble cassolettes. The marble tops with pinatum finials inverting to a candle sconce, above an ovoid body hung with floral swags and with triform supports headed by rams head masks, standing on stepped circular plinths with beaded decoration. Mounts re-gilded.

Height 12” (30.5cm)

Width 4” (10.2cm)

Depth 4” (10.2cm)

French

Circa 1870