Details
A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE URNS, each with an everted, beaded and egg-and-dart moulded rim, the frieze carved in high relief with a procession of Bacchanalian dancers, the lower part with a twin mask and loop handle to each side, and with acanthus and foliate scrolls, on fluted, circular spreading foot and square plinth (weathered; some damage), 20th century
39in. (99cm.) diam.; 62¾in. (159.5cm.) high (2)
39in. (99cm.) diam.; 62¾in. (159.5cm.) high (2)
Literature
J.P.S. Davies, Antique Garden Ornament, Woodbridge 1991, p. 297 & pl. 7:9.