A PAIR OF PATINATED-BRONZE AND RED MARBLE BRULE PARFUMS

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTOR OF 19TH CENTURY FURNITURE AND WORKS OF ART (LOTS 601-637)

A PAIR OF PATINATED-BRONZE AND RED MARBLE BRULE PARFUMS

ATTRIBUTED TO LOPIENSKI, WARSAW, CIRCA 1890

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A PAIR OF PATINATED-BRONZE AND RED MARBLE BRULE PARFUMS
ATTRIBUTED TO LOPIENSKI, WARSAW, CIRCA 1890
Each with an acanthus-clad lid surmounted with a butterfly finial above a bowl supported by chained putti caryatids enclosing a coiled serpent and terminating in hoof feet on a rouge griotte marble tripartite base
26 ½ in. (67 cm.) high; 11 in. (28 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

Jan Lopienski (1838–1907) studied in Vienna and Paris and founded a bronze workshop in Warsaw in 1862. He was awarded a silver medal at the 1878 Paris Exposition universelle for a bronze balustrade commissioned for the palace of Count Jan Zawisza in Warsaw. Jan Lopienski was succeeded by his sons Grzegorz (1863-1939) and Felix (1866-1941), who took over their father’s business. Compare an ormolu-mounted grey marble centrepiece sold Christie’s, New York, 21 October 2008, lot 200.

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