AN ITALIAN ALABASTRO FIORITO AND RED AND PORTOR MARBLE PEDESTAL

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AN ITALIAN ALABASTRO FIORITO AND RED AND PORTOR MARBLE PEDESTAL
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

The moulded stepped spreading rectangular top supported by a lion-headed foliate monopodium, on a stepped spreading socle and rectangular plinth, restorations, incorporating an earlier chimera monopodium
12¾in. (32.5cm.) wide; 47¾in. (121cm.) high; 15¾in. (40cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The form of the lion-monopodium emerging from an acanthus-calyx relates to that of an antique tripod-table in the Naples Museum (G.M.A. Richter, Furniture of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, London, 1966, fig. 577

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