AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节

An Italian white marble fountain
After the Antique, Late 18th/Early 19th Century
The circular resevoir with moulded overhanging edge, above lion-masks, the lower part fluted, raised on a central spirally fluted baluster upright and three fluted tapering legs each with claw foot, lacking base, losses
41in. (104cm.) high; 37in. (94cm.) diameter, approx.

来源

Sold in these Rooms 4 June 1991, lot 160.

拍品专文

This fountain is modelled from a similar Antique pentelic marble tripod fountain excavated from the Villa Adriana at Tivoli. Originally in the Capitoline Museum in Rome, the tripod was acquired for the Louvre in 1797, by the signing of the Treaty of Tolentino, between Napoleon and Pope Pius VI (see Oeuvres d'Architecture, Jean LePautre, 1751, pl. 22, for an engraving of the tripod).

A notable biscuit porcelain dinner service by the Sèvres Factory, commissioned in 1810 by Bonaparte for the Tuileries, included a reduced copy of the Louvre tripod.