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Ewer and its basin called "Temperance", in silvered bronze, in the style of the Renaissance, after the model by François Briot, kept at the Louvre Museum.
The ovoid-shaped ewer rests on a circular pedestal, with a handle in the shape of a woman.
The basin where Temperance sits in the center is lined with gadroon moldings, chiselled with cartouches with allegories of the 4 elements and the arts (Rhetoric, Music, Dialectics, Geometry, etc.), divinities, grotesque masks and foliage.
Basin diameter: 44cm
Ewer height: 35 cm
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