Lot 46
46
The Property of the late SIR BASIL FRASER 2nd Baronet of Cromarty
AN ENGLISH GREEN SERPENTINE MARBLE REDUCTION OF THE WARWICK VASE, the everted lotus-leaf cast rim above a trailing vine frieze and waisted body carved with masks after the antique, with interlaced foliate handles to each end, the tapering body centred by a lion-mask above an acanthus-carved underside, a gadrooned turned, spreading socle and turned columnar plinth, on associated green marble column and associated variegated serpentine marble stepped base, second half 19th Century, the plinth associated, possibly Italian

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AN ENGLISH GREEN SERPENTINE MARBLE REDUCTION OF THE WARWICK VASE, the everted lotus-leaf cast rim above a trailing vine frieze and waisted body carved with masks after the antique, with interlaced foliate handles to each end, the tapering body centred by a lion-mask above an acanthus-carved underside, a gadrooned turned, spreading socle and turned columnar plinth, on associated green marble column and associated variegated serpentine marble stepped base, second half 19th Century, the plinth associated, possibly Italian
16in. (40.5cm.) wide; 22½in. (57cm.) high

Lot Essay

A related Italian rosso antico reduction of the Warwick vase signed B. BOSCHETTI, a sculptor of the first half of the 19th century who specialised in classical subjects, is illustrated in A. Gonzales-Palacios, Il Tempo del Gusto, Milan, 1984, vol. II, p. 131, fig. 286

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