THE PROPERTY OF A DECEASED ESTATE
(Lots 16 - 40)
Lots 16 - 31
This unusual collection of Roman, or possibly Spanish, ormolu-mounted polished and cut marble ornaments probably originally embellished a dessert or architectural table centrepiece, made fashionable by the designs of Guiseppe Valadier, Giacomo Rafaelli and Francesco and Luigi Righetti around the turn of the late 18th early 19th Century. Related designs and objects are illustrated in A. Gonzalez Palacios, Il Tempo del Gusto, Milan, 1984, vol. II, figs. 255, 261, 267, 271-5 and 293-5. Their previous roles as parts of an integral architectural decorative scheme do perhaps account for the replacements and associated elements necessitated by their change of use.
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE CASSOLETTE with removable top surmounted by a fruiting finial, the tapering ovoid body with three ram's headed monopodiae supports joined by ribbon-tied floral garlands, on circular white marble plinth, 19th Century, several elements stamped HG and KI
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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE CASSOLETTE with removable top surmounted by a fruiting finial, the tapering ovoid body with three ram's headed monopodiae supports joined by ribbon-tied floral garlands, on circular white marble plinth, 19th Century, several elements stamped HG and KI
9¾in.(24.5cm.)high
9¾in.(24.5cm.)high