Mount, Gilt bronze, Winged female sphinx facing right with acanthus leaf crown from which springs an ancanthus-like flower, a tall symmetrically leafed and berried stem and a long spiraled leafed stem ending in a rosette. Sphinx's tail is an elongated acanthus leaf ending in a double spiraled stem, each of which terminates in a rosette. Seven screw holes and two small threaded projections under feet for attachment to wood. End broken off center stem projecting from crown., ca. 1805, Decorative Arts, Mount

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