""La tempérance" Aiguière Et Son Bassin En Bronze Argenté, d'après François Briot, XIXème Siècle"
Ewerière and its basin called "Temperance", in silver-plated bronze, in the style of the Renaissance, after the model of François Briot, preserved in the Louvre Museum.The egg-shaped ewer lays on a circular pedestal, with a woman-shaped handle.
The basin dominated by the Temperance, is lined with moldings godrons, chiseled cartridges allegories of the 4 elements and arts (Rhetoric, Music, Dialectics, Geometry, ...), deities, grotesque masks and foliage.
Diameter of the basin: 44cm
Height ewer: 35 cm
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