Pair Of Ornamental Campan Marble Vases With Goat Heads. Nineteenth, Neoclassical Style

An Timeless Model - Beautiful pair of Vases covered with ovoid-shaped ornament on green Campan marble pedestal and gilt-chiseled bronze frame with Neoclassical decoration of frieze and laurel torus with crossed ribbons, flower garland, pearls and channels, acanthus foliage and goat heads forming handles. Quadrangular molded marble counter-base with hollowed-out angles. Parisian work from the second half of the 19th century, Louis XVI Style. Made in Campan marble, this elegant and imposing pair of ovoid-shaped covered vases rests on a pedestal surrounded by a laurel torus with crossed ribbons, set on a quadrangular base with hollowed out angles punctuated by a string of pearls. A rich set of finely chiseled gilded bronzes, clearly inspired by the Neoclassical Style promoted at the end of the French 18th century, dresses it. Set in the upper part in a circular frame with openwork foliage of grained laurel branches, each vase is flanked by two goat heads plumed with acanthus florets; from their necklaces blooms a flowered garland; a foliage of acanthus leaves adorns their base; oves, gadroons and lanceolate foliage set their cover topped with a pine cone. The nobility of the materials used (marble / gilded bronze), the sobriety of the ornamental lexicon required as well as the pattern of the handles at the heads of goats - leimotiv of the Neoclassical current - register this pair of covered vases in the worthy line of the Vases d ' ornament called "A l'Antique" created in the years 1760-1770 by the architect-ornamentalist Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791) The decorative arts of the second half of the 19th century acquired from the nobility of the Louis XVI Style were to ensure this formal and aesthetic fortune. We will add that "closely associated with the memory of Antiquity by their shapes and even their materials, the marble vases embody the noblest version of the ornamental object". Hence, in the eighteenth as well as in the nineteenth centuries, "the increasing place that was granted to them within the great collections". (see: Decorations, furniture and objets d'art from the Louvre Museum from Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette, Exhibition Cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 2014, Notices 186, p.447- Pair of large porphyry vases with goat heads of the Duke of Richeliet then of the Duke of Aumont, 1762-1764 and n ° 188, p.451 Vase with goat heads of the Duke of Aumont, circa 1775-1780.