An Italian marmo rosso antico carved tazze,attributed to Benedetto Boschetti the square dish with egg and dart rim, the corners with swans, the moulded frieze with vitruvian scroll band, the dished, fluted centre with reeded circular boss, the conforming elongated spreading socle with square platform, on a marmo nero belgio stepped rectangular plinth -- 20¾in. (52.5cm.) high.

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An Italian marmo rosso antico carved tazze,attributed to Benedetto Boschetti the square dish with egg and dart rim, the corners with swans, the moulded frieze with vitruvian scroll band, the dished, fluted centre with reeded circular boss, the conforming elongated spreading socle with square platform, on a marmo nero belgio stepped rectangular plinth -- 20¾in. (52.5cm.) high.

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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).

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