A pair of mid 19th century French gilt bronze mounted and celadon green opaline glass vases
in the Louis XV style, circa 1860
the bulbous double gourd bodies with tapering necks and oval upturned foliate collars, each mounted within fruiting acanthus scrolling twin handled open frameworks, on corresponding open scroll pierced footed bases, 58cm high approximately (2)
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Comparative Literature:
Shelley M. Bennett and Carolyn Sargentson, French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington, The Huntington Library, 2008, no. 55, pp.158-159.

The shape of this pair of vases is loosely based upon a Yuan dynasty Chinese green celadon double gourd vase mounted with Louis XV gilt-bronze mounts, now in the Huntington Collection. Although the latter vase has mounts cast with vine leaves and grapes, the present pair are clearly inspired by this model.