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Antique Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze & Vert Maurin Marble Cassolettes

A pair of Napoleon III gilt bronze and Vert Maurin marble cassolettes. The marble tops with acorn finials inverting to a candle sconce, above an ovoid body hung with floral swags and rams head masks, standing on circular plinths with beaded decoration. Retaining the original gilding. The gilt floral swags cast by Christofle et Cie.

Height 10″

Width 3 1/2″

Depth 3 1/2″

French

Circa 1870