Pair of Painted Tole and Dore Bronze Mounted Neoclassical Style Covered Vases

Product Description

A fabulous and Palace size pair of French/North European painted tole and dore bronze mounted neoclassical covered vases. This beautiful pair of original covered vases are exquisitely made with a fabulous black patinated tole body each with two handles designed in Greek key-scroll patterns and flanked on either end with rams head masks holding rings in their mouths. Each body is mounted on a square-shaped two-tone hand chased dore bronze base. These are beautiful in any decorative setting and are aesthetically and functionally appealing to any room. Tole vases of this scale are very rare to see from this period.
Provenance: These vases were sold in Christies New York, sale number 9656, Fine French and Continental Furnitur, Porcelain, and Tapestries sale, on 24 May, 2001, for $56,400. The vases are in great condition except some very expected minor paint loss that is visible in the pictures.
France, late 18th-first half 19th century.

Height: 32 in (81.28 cm)
Diameter: 18 in (45.72 cm)