French Solid Bronze Compote with Classical Scene
France, Circa 1880
A richly cast and finely detailed French bronze tazza or compote, likely intended for a grand salon or mantel. The top surface is intricately relief-cast with a Renaissance-style fête galante: a classical scene of musicians and courtly figures surrounded by ruins and columns, beneath a flying cherub. The base features mythological scenes with reclining nymphs and putti among floral and foliate Rococo ornament.
This solid bronze piece is exceptionally heavy and crisply cast, with neoclassical urn-form stem supports and a base encircled in high-relief scrollwork.
French Solid Bronze Compote with Classical Scene
France, Circa 1880
A richly cast and finely detailed French bronze tazza or compote, likely intended for a grand salon or mantel. The top surface is intricately relief-cast with a Renaissance-style fête galante: a classical scene of musicians and courtly figures surrounded by ruins and columns, beneath a flying cherub. The base features mythological scenes with reclining nymphs and putti among floral and foliate Rococo ornament.
This solid bronze piece is exceptionally heavy and crisply cast, with neoclassical urn-form stem supports and a base encircled in high-relief scrollwork.