拍品 112
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A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE CAMPANA URNS, each with an everted egg-and-dart moulded rim, the frieze carved in high relief with bacchic figures and putti, flanked to each side by a twin mask-and-loop handle, above a lower gadrooned bowl, on leaf-carved circular spreading fluted socle, with circular guilloche carved foot and square base, (one with a section of its bowl lacking, chip to handle, broken and repaired at neck, the other with losses to socle neck, chips to rim, the square base with three corners damaged), late 18th Century

細節
A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE CAMPANA URNS, each with an everted egg-and-dart moulded rim, the frieze carved in high relief with bacchic figures and putti, flanked to each side by a twin mask-and-loop handle, above a lower gadrooned bowl, on leaf-carved circular spreading fluted socle, with circular guilloche carved foot and square base, (one with a section of its bowl lacking, chip to handle, broken and repaired at neck, the other with losses to socle neck, chips to rim, the square base with three corners damaged), late 18th Century
21in. (53.4cm.) wide; 21in. (53.4cm.) high
來源
Acquired by Jonas Langford-Brooke (d. 1784)

拍品專文

These vases of wine-krater form with satyr-headed handles and bacchic frieze of festive figures are designed in the manner of the celebrated Borghese vase. The Borghese vase, recorded in the Villa Borghese by 1645, was acquired by Napoleon Bonaparte in September 1807 for the Musée Napoleon (for a full discussion see F. Haskell & N. Penny Tarte and the Antique, London 1981, p. 315, no. 81).

These fluted 'herm' pedestals with flowered guilloche frieze relate to one displayed at the Society of Antiquaries London and is thought to have been supplied for a statue of King George III, which was commissioned for their rooms at Somerset House in 1772 from the sculptor John Bacon (d. 1799). The basic pattern featured as a 'Term for a Bust' in John Carter's, Buildings Magazine, 1778, pl. 120.

In the 1840 inventory, this 'pair of sculptured vases in statuary marble with bohemian figures in relief on fluted pedestals of the same, chipped various places' are listed in the Drawing-Room