Jean Garouste Terracotta Lions Head Urn c.1890

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Jean Garouste Terracotta Lions Head Urn c.1890A superb hand crafted terracotta urn by renowned 19th century atelier sculptor Jean Garouste, Castelnaudary, Southwestern France. This urn is in perfect condition, which is very rare for pieces of this kind. It bears a clear stamp of the maker. With Lions heads, scrolled handles and foliage swags. It is simply magnificent.

These oversized Torchères would have adorned a French Stately Home or Palace during the reign of The Sun King Louis XIV

Their potters slips and glazes so natural like the shifting sands

Ideal as an interior or garden piece

Attributed to manufacturers Austin and Seeley c

Make fantastic interior sculpture simply hung on the wall

Scarborough

This limestone sculpture features detailed depictions of three figures

untouched for almost 100 years

These crucibles found their way all over the world and in the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s they were traded for their actual weight in gold

Amy Robsart

The figures that flank the central figure of Christ are possibly two centurions that were present at his crucifixion

this would have been the height of fashion at its time of construction and in its day would have cost a pretty penny