A PAIR OF FRENCH 'NEO-GREC' GILT AND PATINATED-BRONZE VASES DESIGNED BY FERDINAND LEVILLIAN (FRENCH, 1837-1905), CAST BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE (FRENCH, 1810-1892), PARIS, CIRCA 1878 Each of amphora form, the leaf-cast rim above a freize of palmettes and rams heads with swirling horns supported on a spreading neck hung with ribbons and olive branches flanked by 'S'-scroll handles decorated with grape vines and terminating in further rams heads, the elongated body decorated with a continuous frieze depicting Classical figures with bounty from both a harvest and hunting, over a pair of horizontal handles and a further continuous freize of Greek theatre masks among olive trees and Classical attributes, raised on a stepped base cast with athemions and fluted border, signed 'F. LEVILLIAN' and 'F. BARBEDIENNE/ PARIS' 45 ¼ in. (115 cm.) high
A PAIR OF FRENCH 'NEO-GREC' GILT AND PATINATED-BRONZE VASES DESIGNED BY FERDINAND LEVILLIAN (FRENCH, 1837-1905), CAST BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE (FRENCH, 1810-1892), PARIS, CIRCA 1878 Each of amphora form, the leaf-cast rim above a freize of palmettes and rams heads with swirling horns supported on a spreading neck hung with ribbons and olive branches flanked by 'S'-scroll handles decorated with grape vines and terminating in further rams heads, the elongated body decorated with a continuous frieze depicting Classical figures with bounty from both a harvest and hunting, over a pair of horizontal handles and a further continuous freize of Greek theatre masks among olive trees and Classical attributes, raised on a stepped base cast with athemions and fluted border, signed 'F. LEVILLIAN' and 'F. BARBEDIENNE/ PARIS' 45 ¼ in. (115 cm.) high
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