CHRISTOFLE -ANTIQUE CENTERPIECE IN SILVERED BRONZE - 19TH CENTURY - FRENCH
Grape-pickers cherubs holding up the shaft decorated with stocks, wine leaves, grapes put on a base in the antique old style decorated with panthers heads (one of the symbol of the wine art) finishing with hoofs feet.
This group of grape-pickers cherubs holding up a twisted cristal cup belongs to the theme of love linked to nature and was very used as a decorative motif or in coronation for many objects under the Second Empire.
The important part of the ornament highlights the sculptor's work at the expense of the silversmith's one.
Diameter of the Baccarat cristal cup (signed Baccarat in all letters) : 38,5 cm