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19th CENTURY ECOLE after Antique Medici vase Patinated...

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19th CENTURY ECOLE after Antique Medici vase Patinated bronze, with two handles, decorated with a frieze depicting a Bacchanal, foliage and a pedestal with canals. With a few minor details, this vase is based on the vase corresponding to n°231 of the Bronzes de la Couronne from the Le Nôtre collection, made between 1673 and 1693 and bequeathed to Louis XIV in 1693. It also refers to the Vase (Musée du Louvre, inv.: MR 985.) Bibliography Les Bronze de La Couronne, Paris, musée du Louvre, April-July 1999, p. 147-148, n°230 and 231. I Borghese e l'Antico, Rome, Galerie Borghese, December 2011-April 2012, no. 3, pp. 238-239.