Matching pair, mid 1800’s, signed, Urns on plinths, 4ft tall

This pair of cast iron urns are modelled on a white marble urn from antiquity, signed by the sculptor Sosibios, a Greek artist working in Rome in around 50 BC,

The urn was in the collection of Louis XIV at Versailles, and is now in the Louvre (MR 987). A design for its production in cast iron appears in the 1858 catalogue "Barbezat & Cie Ancienne Maison André, Hauts Fourneaux- Fonderies du Val d'Osne"