A Good Pair of Napoleon III Bronze Urns with Covers After Claude Michel Clodion c.1870 sub-Antiques The stand has fared a

The stand has fared a little less well with one of the swags lacking and it is slightly rickety but beautiful and totally original showing a healthy amount of green patination commensurate with age

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A Good Pair of Napoleon III Bronze Urns with Covers After Claude Michel Clodion c.1870 sub-Antiques The stand has fared aOrigin: French Period: 2nd Empire Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1870 Height: 15. 25 inches Width: 9 inches The fine pair of late nineteenth century French bronze urns decorated overall in the manner of Clodion, the lid finials cast as reclining amorini, each with lift out liners and twin handles cast as fruiting vines, the friezes with further cavorting putti in relief, with waisted and fluted undersides standing on ebonised wooden plinths bases. The