A PAIR OF PEDESTAL SALTS

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A PAIR OF PEDESTAL SALTS
SCHOOL OF FONTAINBLEAU, 16TH CENTURY, FROM THE CIRCLE OF BERNARD PALISSY

Each of architectural form, painted in green, yellow, manganese and blue, with a circular well within the square top of a pedestal moulded at each corner with a variant winged mask, each side with a figure of Neptune rising from waves within a doorway flanked by nereid caryatids, a portrait bust beneath the pediment flanked by sea putti and dolphins, the interior incised with an entwined BC, with paper exhibition label from the South Kensington Museum and with paper lot tags inscribed 12 and 13, the undersides inscribed in red with Sackler numbers 2.3.18A and 82.3.18B (edges worn, nimor restored chips to feet)--6in. (125.2cm.) high (2)

來源

Henry T. Hope, 'Deepdene', Newcastle
By descent to the Sixth Duke of Newcastle, 'Clumber', Worksop
Seventh Duke of Newcastle; Christie's, London, July 7, 1921, lot 132 (240 gns. to Awa)
George A. Lockett, Esq.; Christie's, London, June 11-12, 1942, lot 220 ($$ to ??)
With Alfred Spero, London
With Cyril Humphris, London

展覽

London, South Kensington Museum, Exhibition title?, July 1868, no. ??

拍品專文

The Edouard de Rothschild Collection example of this model, closely similar to the present pair, is illustrated by Germaune de Rothschild and Serge Grandjean, Bernard Palissy et son école (collection Edouard de Rothschild), Paris, 1952, pl. 35, no. XXXIV. The only other recorded example was in the Spitzer Collection sold in Paris, 1893, no. 634, pl. XVIII where it fetched 7,000 francs. Grandjean loc.cit. ascribes these pieces to the Bernard Palissy workshop on the basis of the impasto treatment. It is possible that all four were produced together as a set.

Sold with thermoluminescence certificate 381s64 dated February 1986 from the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, stating that the sample tested was last fired between 270 and 420 years ago (1566-1716).