19th Century Gilded Bronze Centerpiece 24cm High Napoleon III Period

  

19th century - Louis XV style. Several quotes in old French engraved under the bowl. "Hunger comes while eating," said Anguston, "but thirst goes away when drinking. Drink always, you will never die from it, and if I do not drink, I am dry." Let us sing, let us drink a motet: let us start, where is my funnel?

By God, I moisten, I sniff, I drink, and everything is to avoid dying. Eternal gem of drinking and drinking of eternity. Pour by the devil, pour here, fill my tongue. Magnificent bowl, 24 cm in diameter / 24 cm high. Bronze with a gold patina.

On the base and the support, cherubs, ram's heads, masks of kings and queens, dolphins. In the bowl, a scene of joy around wine.