The classic and original Antoine-Andre Ravrio French Empire patinated bronze and ormolu urn. This is in the form of a classical Greek wine ewer but still further refined. Set on a square base with ormolu rim and leaf shaped ormolu cup to the body of the vase. Supremely elegant urn sweeps up to elegant spout. Superb ormolu handle of the finest quality in the form of a griffin's head over the back of the spout falling down via Acanthus flower and leaf to a bacchus mask. France circa 1805. 14.25 inches high by 5 inches wide by 3 inches deep ( 35.625 cms by 12.5 cms by 7.5 cms). For a similar vase see Ottomeyer and Proschel " Vergoldeter Bronzen" vol II pp. 690.