A PAIR OF FRENCH PATINATED AND PARCEL GILT BRONZE TWO-HANDLED AMPHORA VASES,circa 1880, designed by Ferdinand Levillain and cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris. The first depicting a standing youth playing pipes below a tree, the second depicting a youth sacrificing a ram. Each bordered with bucranes and fruit swags, supported on triple anthemion-cast lion-paw monopodiae. Mounted as lamps - 22 1/2 in. high. Estimate $3,000-4,000
