AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A PAIR OF CAST IRON 'SOSIBOS' KRATER GARDEN URNS
19TH CENTURY
Each with twin swan head handles above neck moulded with ivy trails and the body with classical figures, set on stone bases
the vases 75cm high, 107.5cm high overall
This pair of cast iron urns are modelled on a white marble urn from antiquity, signed by the sculptor Sosibios, a Greek artist probably working in Rome in around 50 BC, The urn was in the collection of Louis XIV at Versailles, and is now in the Louvre (MR 987). A design for its production in cast iron appears in the 1858 catalogue "Barbezat & Cie Ancienne Maison André, Hauts Fourneaux- Fonderies du Val d'Osne" and an English version of the model was later in the 1874 catalogue of A. Handyside and Co.
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A PAIR OF CAST IRON 'SOSIBOS' KRATER GARDEN URNS
19TH CENTURY
Each with twin swan head handles above neck moulded with ivy trails and the body with classical figures, set on stone bases
the vases 75cm high, 107.5cm high overall
This pair of cast iron urns are modelled on a white marble urn from antiquity, signed by the sculptor Sosibios, a Greek artist probably working in Rome in around 50 BC, The urn was in the collection of Louis XIV at Versailles, and is now in the Louvre (MR 987). A design for its production in cast iron appears in the 1858 catalogue "Barbezat & Cie Ancienne Maison André, Hauts Fourneaux- Fonderies du Val d'Osne" and an English version of the model was later in the 1874 catalogue of A. Handyside and Co.
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