A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY VASES AND COVERS, IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, BY MAISON MILLET, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PORPHYRY VASES AND COVERS
IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, BY MAISON MILLET, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each cover with pomegranate finial above a waisted neck and ovoid body with a scrolled rose-branch band flanked by Bacchic masks, on a spreading laurel-wreathed socle and square foot, on a square fixed base signed 'Millet à Paris'
25 in. (64 cm.) high

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Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 22 September 2011, lot 28.

Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN, FROM BELMONT HOUSE, EAST SUSSEX (LOTS 77-90)