Claude Bertin was a French sculptor, who was part of the highly-trained team that supplied sculptures for Versailles

Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles , or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles....

. His monumental marble vases, following the type of the Borghese Vase

Borghese Vase

The Borghese Vase is a monumental bell-shaped krater sculpted in Athens from Pentelic marble in the second half of the 1st century BC as a garden ornament for the Roman market; it is now in the Louvre Museum.-Iconography:...

, with rich bas-reliefs of fruit, swags of ivy or friezes of mythological scenes, executed between 1687 and 1705, still adorn the terraces of Versailles.

External links

• Château de Versailles: Les oeuvres à restaurer en 2006 Three vases by Bertin.