Pair of Louis XVI Ormolu and Marble Cassolettes

Last quarter 18th century, white marble and gilt bronze, unsigned, convertible candleholder forms, the removable cover with berry finial to one side and engine turned nozzle to the opposite, over a white marble basin with reticulated scrollwork and finished with chain swag, supported by fine cast tripodal putti monopodia over paw feet flanking a central spiraling standard with issuing grapes and palmette forms.

12 1/4 x 5 x 5 in.

From the Collection of a Gentleman, Fearrington, North Carolina

Good estate condition; some rubbing to gilt; some very small edge chips and minor abrasions to marble terraces.