Pair of goblets, following Empire models, late 19th century.
Marble and gilded bronze.
Measurements: 21 x 8,5 x 6 cm(x2).
Pair of ornamental goblets in historicist style, whose forms are inspired by the Empire style. They consist of an ovoid vessel in white marble, and the rest of the pieces are in gilded bronze, cast in relief and with cold chiselled details. The base is typically Empire, prismatic, sharp-edged and smooth, and the foot is placed directly on it, consisting of a tight laurel wreath, worked in the synthetic and refined style typical of the period around 1800. The bronze ornamentation is particularly notable for the quality of the chiselling, which reproduces the texture of the leaves with great expressiveness. The ovoid shape of the body is surmounted by an intermediate neck that forms the junction with the vessel, which is ovoid and follows classicist models. Also of note is the figurative representation in bronze of the body, in which we can see the figure of a lady in full movement, wearing classical clothes, so that it is likely to represent a maenad.