Pair of Console Cabinets (Bas d’armoire)

Attibuted to Master of the Reticulated Mounts

About 1730

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Large, heavy ewer commonly known as "Sacred to Bacchus" resting on a square plinth with molded scrolling vines, the foot and lower body fluted and with bands of acanthus leaves around the foot and overlapping leaves around the middle of the body, with a smaller band of beading on the stem, the main body with garlands of leafy grape vines and bunches of grapes, on the should of the ewer sits a faun with his head bowed, he holds the horns of a ram in his hands as reins, his arms encompass the neck of the ewer, with a crossed double handle behind him.
Oval medallion of black basalt with bas relief portrait bust of Roman Emperor Tiberius (42 BC-37 AD) facing right, wearing laurel leaf crown, the name TIBERIUS impressed below the truncation, self frame, pierced to hang.
Round portrait medallion of gray-blue jasper laminated between two dark blue jasper dip surfaces, with a gray-blue portrait bust of a man to left.
Round dark blue jasper medallion with white relief of Cupid shaving his bow, broken and poorly repaired