The Battle Of The Centaurs And The Lapiths, Large Covered Pot In Silver-plated Bronze From The 19th Century

The Battle of the Centaurs and the Lapiths,
Large Covered Pot in Silver-Plated Bronze from the 19th Century .
Large covered pot in silver-plated bronze in the manner of German covered pots, Augsburg in ivory from the 17th century and the Renaissance representing on its rim and its lid the battle of the centaurs and the lapiths.
The sculptural details are magnificent and the bodies are intertwined, we can distinguish the lapiths fighting against the centaurs, the faces are grimacing and the muscles prominent.
beautiful chiseling work and even openwork work in some places.
The silver finish is in perfect condition.

A superb covered pot in bronze on an intense mythological theme.

Mythological subject:
during the wedding of Pirithoos of Thessaly, king of the Lapiths, with Hippodamia, the Centaurs, fabulous beings with the head and torso of a man and the body of a horse, who had become drunk, wanted to seize the young wife and others women;
they then ran into the Lapiths who chased them.

dimensions:
36 cm high and 16 cm at the widest.

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