20TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF ITALIAN PATINATED AND GILT-BRONZE TAZZE
20TH CENTURY
Each supported by three bearded male figures
17½ in. (44.5 cm.) high, 14 in. (35.5 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 31 March 2000, lot 178.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

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Lot Essay

These bronze tazza on plinths, festooned with bacchic masks of lions and rams, are conceived in the 19th-century antique manner, and their Atlas caryatids derive from a Roman antiquity illustrated in Giovanni Battista Piranesi's, Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Rome, 1778, pls. 50-51.

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