Auction 153 Antiques & Works of Art, Silver & Jewellery

343

A Napoleon III centre piece


Estimate

8.000 - 10.000


Session 2

15 October 2025



Description

Attributed to Louis Constant Sevin (1821–1888) and Ferdinand Barbedienne (1810–1892)

In gilt bronze and champlevé enamel on marble

Shallow Belgium Black marble bowl decorated with a band of polychrome champlevé enamels depicting a border of vines with bunches of grapes

With two gilt-bronze handles modelled as vines with vine leaves and grape clusters, surmounted by confronting leopards

Raised on a base with central column decorated in relief with bunches of grapes, flanked by four legs with hoof terminals, on a shaped griotte marble plinth with circular gilt-bronze feet

France, circa 1870

38x56x35 cm


Category

Objects



Closed Auction