Dalva Brothers Antiques, Antique Furniture, New York

French 18th century furniture, clocks, lighting, paintings, porcelain, sculpture and tapestries

Pair of Italian neoclassical covered bronze cinerary vases. The vases, based on antique Roman prototypes, share the same composition – ribbed domed covers over a relief frieze with female masks at each side, with gadroons below resting on a round plinth decorated with a laurel band. The relief decorations include an eagle, cattle skull, scrolls, a face in a shield etc. all arranged in a differing composition on each vase. [Differing finials.]