Casts of garden urns designed for Versailles offered in Oxfordshire
In a style admired in the gardens at Versailles and at a House & Garden sale in Abingdon, a pair of urns after those created for Louis XIV’s great project led the field at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium).
Delicately cast, as any bronze to a design by Claude Ballin (1615-78) merits, the 2ft 4in (71cm) h…