A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE MEDICI AND BORGHESE VASES

19TH CENTURY

细节

A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE MEDICI AND BORGHESE VASES
19th century
Each campana-shaped body with mask, relief-carved loop handles and frieze above a rising circular foot and square base, on later white-painted square pedestal
53½in. (135cm.) high, overall including pedestal (2)

来源

The late Sir John Musker, Shadwell Park, Norfolk, sold Sotheby's house sale, 21 October 1992, lot 92

拍品专文

Discovered in the late 16th Century, the Borghese vase was in that family's collections by 1645. It was brought from Prince Camillo Borghese in 1807 by his brother-in-law Napoleon Bonaparte and is now in the Louvre. The Medici vase was almost certainly in their Florentine collection by the mid-16th Century. Now thought to date from the second-half of the 1st Century A.D., it is in the Uffizi. When paired as here, it was customary for the copy of the Borghese vase to be given the krater form of the Medici vase when the original does not have handles.