Details
Modeled in three sections encircled by a gallery with seated winged female figures supporting fruit-filled baskets beside a dove, the gallery divided by eight shallow tazze on leaf-cast baluster stems, further figures to each corner stand atop a globe raising wreaths in each hand and fitted with glass bud vases all above a frieze mounted with rosettes and raised on leaf-cast feet, the mirror plates a later replacement
1212 in. (32 cm.) high, 3314 in. (84.5 cm.) wide, 8612 in. (220 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 7 December 2005, lot 288.
Property from an Important Private Collection; Christie's, London, 15 July 2020, lot 249.
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Lot Essay

This lovely model of surtout draws on the oeuvre of ciseleur-doreur Pierre-Philippe Thomire. His delicate ormolu creations featured elegantly draped Classical figures and naturalistic flora and fauna that graced the tables of the highest society at the start of the 19th century. For some examples by Thomire which may have inspired this design, see Christie's, London, 6 July 2023, lot 28 and The Cooper Hewitt Museum, Accession Number 1991-31-1-a/ww.

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