A SET OF FOUR BRONZE 'VERSAILLES' VASES AFTER THE VERSAILLES DESIGN BY CLAUDE BALLIN, 20TH CENTURY Each approximately 92cms high, 71cms wide Claude Ballin (1615-1678), designed this vase in the Classical manner with bands of greek key, oak leaves and acorns and distinctive addorsed Janus head handles and boar masks. Between 1660-1680 vases to this design were cast in bronze for the terrace of Versailles. In the latter part of the 19th century their design was copied, with Napoleon III's permission, by the 4th Marquess of Hentford for his estate the Chateau de Bagatelle.