Water And Wine Ewers - After Sigisbert-françois Michel - Patinated Bronze

A pair of ornamental bronze ewer-shaped vases with a double patina, blending dark brown tones with golden highlights.
One depicts a lively scene of a satyr grasping the horns of a ram, surrounded by a garland of vine tendrils and foliage cascading over the body, evoking the allegory of Wine. The second is adorned with a triton holding a dolphin's head, accompanied by a wreath of stylized seaweed, symbolizing the element of Water.
Each piece rests on a pedestal decorated with vegetal motifs and a quadrangular base highlighted by a beaded frieze.

The original plaster model was presented in 1774 to the Académie Saint-Luc by Sigisbert Françoic Michel, brother of the sculptor Clodion and nephew of Lambert Sigibert Adam.
An 18th-century bronze cast is held at the Nissim de Camondo Museum in Paris, while a 19th-century version is in the Wallace Collection in London.

Water Vase and Wine Vase.
Bronze cast with a double patina after a model by Sigibert François Michel from 1774.
Work from the second half of the 19th century, Napoleon III period.
Wear to the patina. Minor deformation on one handle.

Dimensions: Height: 37.5 cm x Width: 20 cm