A set of four impressive French gilded cast iron vases and covers mid 19th century in Louis XIV style, each of baluster form, the cover with a berried foliate finial, the body centred by a cartouche front and back, one with Daphne being transformed into a tree by her father, the River God, the other with Apollo Slaying the Python and Quarrelling with Cupid, within a border of fruit and foliage surmounted by a grotesque mask with a scrolled boss below flanked by a dog's head, each side with a Bacchic mask handle on a trumpet foot cast with guilloche; re-gilt and gilding worn, each now on later cream-coloured hexagonal stone bases each approx. 95cm. high; 70 cm. wide; base 72cm.; 3ft. 1 3/4 in., 2ft 3 1/2in., 2ft. 4 1/4in.
A set of four impressive French gilded cast iron vases and covers mid 19th century in Louis XIV style, each of baluster form, the cover with a berried foliate finial, the body centred by a cartouche front and back, one with Daphne being transformed into a tree by her father, the River God, the other with Apollo Slaying the Python and Quarrelling with Cupid, within a border of fruit and foliage surmounted by a grotesque mask with a scrolled boss below flanked by a dog's head, each side with a Bacchic mask handle on a trumpet foot cast with guilloche; re-gilt and gilding worn, each now on later cream-coloured hexagonal stone bases each approx. 95cm. high; 70 cm. wide; base 72cm.; 3ft. 1 3/4 in., 2ft 3 1/2in., 2ft. 4 1/4in.
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