{"product_id":"tazza-pair-gilt-metal-coupes-on-black-53645","title":"Tazza Pair, Gilt Metal Coupes on Black Marble Plinths, Empire Style Cassolettes — French, 19th Century Attribution","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cassolette is the mantelpiece's classical ornament par excellence: a shallow coupe raised on a plinth, descended from the perfume-burners of the ancien régime and kept on French chimney-pieces long after anyone burned pastilles in them — because a pair of them, flanking a clock or a mirror, gave a mantel its architecture. The formula the nineteenth century loved was exactly this one: bright gilt metal against dead-black marble, the sharpest contrast a fireplace could stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis pair is French, in the Empire taste, attributed to the nineteenth century: each a shallow gilt coupe with a ribbed, coin-milled rim, flanked by scrolling foliate handles, raised on a ring-turned gilt stem over a tall black marble plinth, the socle edged with a gilt band of lambrequin ornament between black marble steps. Run your eye along that gilt border where it turns the corner — the lambrequin folds meet the corner acanthus in a mitred join, cast and finished as one continuous run, the kind of resolved detail that separates furnishing bronzes made with care from hardware applied by the metre. The pair reads as sculpture from across a room and as craft from a hand's distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe gilding is bright and even, and the marble is sound overall, with small chips to the arrises — the sharp edges — of the plinths, stated plainly and photographed. Whoever flanked their mantel clock with this pair before you kept them together and kept them well. They are made for a mantelpiece, a console, or bookending a shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pair is gilt metal and solid marble, six and a half kilograms together, attributed to the nineteenth century. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — we handle the paperwork and worldwide shipping, with all import duties paid by us, so there is nothing to settle on delivery. Returns are accepted within 30 days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDETAILS:\u003cbr\u003e\nEach: Height 26 cm (10.2 in) · Base 11 × 11 cm (4.3 × 4.3 in) · Coupe diameter 16 cm (6.3 in) excluding handles — each roughly the height of a milk carton\u003cbr\u003e\nWeight of pair: 6.6 kg (14.6 lb)\u003cbr\u003e\nGilt metal coupes and mounts; black marble plinths · Sold as a pair\u003cbr\u003e\nCondition: very good condition for age; bright even gilding, small chips to marble edges (see photos)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maison Jaspers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59081821520217,"sku":"LM-E-211","price":800.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/5388\/5529\/files\/il_fullxfull.8410788139_7m4h.jpg?v=1787564897","url":"https:\/\/maisonjaspers.com\/products\/tazza-pair-gilt-metal-coupes-on-black-53645","provider":"Maison Jaspers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}