Huge French Chateau Centrepiece Garden Urn & Plinth

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Huge French Chateau Centrepiece Garden Urn & PlinthA superb and grand scale French chateau garden centrepiece urn and plinth. The epitome of the perfect formal garden piece, an ideal based on symmetry and imposing order on nature for aesthetic pleasure. Early 20th Century French composite stone. Standing at over 2m high!

‘The Decorative Arts of the China Trade’

Part of her Venice series Cargo shows a lone Gondola emerging from the mists on the Grand Canal

Surrounding the mirror glass is a delicate oak leaf swag with ribbons

1780 With a later addition of Blacksmith-made arms with bobeche

Along with Saint Catherine of Siena

He is depicted here wearing a lionskin and wielding a club which he used to slay the ‘Neamean Lion’ and the nine-headed ‘Lernaean Hydra’ a serpentine water monster who guarded an entrance to the Underworld

on cabriole legs of stylised shells flanked by eagle-head pierced brackets and hairy paw feet

These blacksmith made pieces with incredible skill and care also illustrate this new way of thinking

or removed when the vessel was later broken up

floral pediment and circular medallion depicting a neoclassical profile portrait

I particularly love the ‘Sejant-Rampant’ lion in the six pointed star

An incredible pair of carved limestone Griffon

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