Beschreibung:

A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CARVED AGATE EWER AND BASIN The agate late 17th Century, the ormolu mounts circa 1785 and possibly by Pierre Gouthière or Pierre-Philippe-Thomire, the design attributed to Jean-Guillaume-Moitte The lobed and foliate-wrapped ewer flanked by a dolphin-carved handle above a baluster-shaped and foliate-carved stem and on oval spreading base mounted with a spirally turned collar and edge, supported by four kneeling putti issuing from scrolling foliage and mounted within a lobed and foliate-engraved oval basin, supported by four winged sphinxes with scrolling tails terminating in flower heads, on a re-entrant base centered by a fruiting finial, minor chips and losses to the rim of the basin 19½ in. (42 cm.) high; 12½ in. (32 cm.) wide; 10½ in. (27 cm.) deep