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Each of baluster form with fluted neck centered with a vitruvian scroll frieze and gadrooned spout above a mask of Neptune on a punched ground, with standing panther handle atop a mask of apollo, the body with scrolled frieze designed with dolphin heads, medallion portraits and masks, on a short waisted spreading circular socle with cast-leaf and ribbed rim
1212 in. (31.5 cm.) high
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The present pair of ewers are after a model by silversmith Nicolas Delaunay (1646 - 1727), made in 1697, now in the Cathedral Museum in Poitiers, France. (see Les Trésors des Eglises de France, Exhibition Catalogue, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1965, p. 187, no. 347).

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