CLASSICAL VASE

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ATTRIBUTED TO LORENZO BARTOLINI (1777-1850), FLORENCE, CIRCA 1815-20
CLASSICAL VASE
Marble; after the antique; the rim with bead and egg and dart moulding, the body elaborately decorated with arabesques of foliage and four satyrs' masks; on a cylindrical column
20 1/8 in. (51.5 cm.) high; 51 in. (129.5 cm.) high, the pedestal

Provenance

Professor Michael Jaffé, and by inheritance to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

The present urn stylistically combines the the elegance and delicacy of the Florentine Quattrocento tradition with the crisp cutting edge geometry of Attic Greece. It compares closely to a group of vases, pedestals and chimneypieces that seem to have issued from the productive Florentine workshop of Lorenzo Bartolini. It is possible to compare the decoration of the present vase to a chimneypiece in the drawing room of Tyninghame House, Dunbar, East Lothian, and another sold at Christie’s, London, 29 October 2009, lot 104, as well as a pair of marble vases sold at Sotheby's, London, 28 March 2017, lot 26, which were subsequently attributed to Bartolini by Sir Timothy Clifford. A drawing by Bartolini in the Civico Museum, Prato (inv. no. 1060), may be the design for the present vase or a similar example..

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