Description
Beautiful staircase start in the shape of a covered vase in chased bronze. The sides of the vase chiselled with flutes, moldings, rows of pearls and a guilloche frieze. The long handles in the shape of winged chimeras surrounded by falling branches. The chiseled pedestal with a frieze of ivy and a fall of laurel leaves that also decorate the top of the lid crowned with a seed. Porphyry posterior base. Fused bronze, turned and chiselled, traces of gilding. Very elegant French work from the end of the 18th century with a high quality of chasing which could be attributed to Etienne-Jean FOUSTIER, Master founder in 1764. Height: 29.5 cm Exhibitions: From Versailles to Paris, the fate of the royal collections, City Hall of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, 1989. The key and the lock, Bordeaux 1973, n°229 in the catalogue.
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Beautiful staircase start in the shape of a covered vase in chased bronze. The sides of the vase chiselled with flutes, moldings, rows of pearls and a guilloche frieze. The long handles in the shape of winged chimeras surrounded by falling branches. The chiseled pedestal with a frieze of ivy and a fall of laurel leaves that also decorate the top of the lid crowned with a seed. Porphyry posterior base. Fused bronze, turned and chiselled, traces of gilding. Very elegant French work from the end of the 18th century with a high quality of chasing which could be attributed to Etienne-Jean FOUSTIER, Master founder in 1764. Height: 29.5 cm Exhibitions: From Versailles to Paris, the fate of the royal collections, City Hall of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, 1989. The key and the lock, Bordeaux 1973, n°229 in the catalogue.
