A MONUMENTAL VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT VASE

Property of a LATIN AMERICAN COLLECTOR

Details

A MONUMENTAL VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT VASE
MAKER'S MARK OF HUNT & ROSKELL LTD, LONDON, 1900

Campana form on incurved triangular stepped pedestal chased with ovolo and dart and stiff leaves at intervals, the tripod hoof stem headed by satyrs issuing from acanthus leaves, a palmette central standard rising to a fluted lower body with bacchic busts at intervals, the body elaborately chased with scenes of naked male figures involved in the various stages of the vendage, on matted ground with a band of chased grapeleaves under the everted ovolo and dart rim with a beaded band, on a conforming triform wood base, marked on pedestal and side, the base also stamped HUNT & ROSKELL LATE STORR & MORTIMER --height of vase 22 3/8in. (56.8cm.)
(309oz., 9626gr.)

Lot Essay

The present vase is an exact copy of an antique Roman vase, engraved and published by Piranesi in his Vasi, candelabri, cippi..., Rome, 1778. This volume was very influential to English silver design, and another copy of the same vase was made by Emes & Barnard in 1824, illustrated in Timothy B. Schroder, The Gilbert Collection of Gold and Silver, 1988, no.121, pp.446-451