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Description A Louis XV style gilt-bronze mounted porcelain cistern
perhaps Samson
circa 1890
the indented vase with lip, a gilt-bronze lid and a spigot issuing from a mask, flanked by models of swans after Meissen originals, on a gilt-bronze base cast with foliage and issuing branches applied with porcelain flowers
27cm. high, 26cm. wide
Condition Report Very decorative. Ingrained dirt. Bronze tarnished and discoloured in places. There are losses to flowerheads - the flowerheads which are present with typical chips and crude glued repairs. This piece is photographed at Mersham le Hatch in the 1920s.
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Literature Inventory,?1926, p. 30, in the South Room.