ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830

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A CHARLES X ORMOLU CENTRE PIECE
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830
Modelled as three putti holding a circular base surmounted by an associated cut-glass bowl and cover, above a circular base decorated with scrolling acanthus leafs and raised on paw-feet
25 in. (65 cm.) high

Provenance

Ordered by Baron Per Tamm in Paris in the 1830s;
Thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

Comparable centerpieces with putti can be found in H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, München 1986, p. 384, nos. 5.16.4-5.16.6. Further examples were sold at Christie's, New York, 21 November 2008, lot 12 and one sold Christie's, London, 7 June 2011, part of lot 334.

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