Lot 54
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A PAIR OF ROMAN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER, BIANCO E NERO MARBLE AND GILT-BRONZE ARCHITECTURAL PLINTHS, attributed to Giuseppe Valadier, each with rectangular top above a repeating foliate frieze, the alabaster panels applied with patera-supported berried swags to front and back and with beaded rosette patera to each end, above a spreading foliate moulded socle and on rectangular plinth, late 18th Century, four corners repaired

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A PAIR OF ROMAN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER, BIANCO E NERO MARBLE AND GILT-BRONZE ARCHITECTURAL PLINTHS, attributed to Giuseppe Valadier, each with rectangular top above a repeating foliate frieze, the alabaster panels applied with patera-supported berried swags to front and back and with beaded rosette patera to each end, above a spreading foliate moulded socle and on rectangular plinth, late 18th Century, four corners repaired
6 1/4in. (16cm.) wide; 3½in. (9cm.) high; 3¾in. (9.5cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

These plinths are similar in character to the oeuvre of Giacomo Rafaelli (1743-1836), the celebrated Roman mosaicist, whose Triumphal Arch clock, presented by Pope Pius VII to Napoléon Bonaparte in 1804, shares loosely related swagged garlands (see A. Gonzalez-Palacios et al., The Art of Mosaics, Selections from The Gilbert Collection, Los Angeles, 1982, rev. ed., no. 29, pp. 116-117)

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