A good quality, late 19th century patinated bronze pair of Sosibios Vases after the antique and now on permanet view in the Louvre in Paris. Beautiful classical design with each vase is of krater form with a bas-relief figural frieze decoration depicting Artemis and Hermes and a Bacchic procession. Elaborate twin scrolling volute handles with swans head terminals and ivy wreath cast flared neck. Raised on polished black slate square plinths etched in gold with patinated bronze paw feet. The Sosibios Vase is a Neo-Attic marble krater from the Helenistic period. French, circa 1880.Based in London, we are dealers in fine decorative antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries. We specialise in this era of enlightenment, neoclassicism and the Grand Tour, with its far reaching influence on style and taste in Britain, Continental Europe and beyond: elegance in the age of Napoleon. Our extensive stock covers all aspects of this period and decorative antiques influenced by the period. We cons...