Lot Essay
Benedetto Boschetti, 74 Via Condotti, Rome, active c.1820 - 1870, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition 1851. The Boschetti workshop was renowned for the exceptional quality of its copies, mostly in marble of Antique vases and objects, for example a rosso antico reduction of the Warwick vase in the Toledo Museum, Ohio (A. González-Palacios, Il Tempo del Gusto, Roma e il Regno delle Duo Sicilie, Milan, 1984, Vol II, fig. 286). F. S. Bonfigli noted in 1856 that 'The Establishment is particularly conspicuous for its great variety of marble works bronzes etc.' (A. González-Palacios, The Art of Mosaics, 1982, p. 166).