Lot Essay
A similar wellhead is depicted in a watercolour by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner, sold Christie's House sale, Tew Park, Oxfordshire, 27-29 May 1987, lot 469.
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15TH CENTURY
Details
A Venetian Istrian marble fragmentary wellhead
15th Century
With an octagonal stepped rim above a cylindrical tapering body, with ribbon-tied amphorae centred by a coat of arms, incomplete
31 in. (79.5 cm.) high; Approx. 32 in. (81 cm.) diameter
15th Century
With an octagonal stepped rim above a cylindrical tapering body, with ribbon-tied amphorae centred by a coat of arms, incomplete
31 in. (79.5 cm.) high; Approx. 32 in. (81 cm.) diameter