Fabulous large gilted bronze ''Warwick'' vase by Barbedienne, Paris circa 1860, modelled after the original the masks between the entwined vine handles, egg and dart rim with grapevine decoration, on a round gilt bronze pedestal. 33cm x 23cm x 25.5cm£2200This is a wonderful French mid 19th century rendition of the famous Warwick Vase with the famous Parisian foundry Achille Collas Seal. This Warwick vase is excellent casting with wonderful bronze and gilt patination and has a removable gilt bronze liner, egg and dart decoration to the edge. The main body of the vase depicting raised mask style heads of Classical Bacchic gods (gods of wine) with grape and vine leaf decoration with acanthus leaf below, all supported on a socle with gilt bronze baseMarked with the Achille Collas seal.Achille Collas (1795-1859) was an important French engineer and inventor who developed a way of mechanically copying sculptures on a reduced scale, a process he called “réduction méchaniqu...