LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A Northern Italian faience "fasces" figural flowerholder group
Late 18th century
Painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief as a perched broadwinged eagle staring backwards at a fasces: a bundle of wooden rods enclosing an axe applied with berried branches, further with a flattened flaring flowerholder, on shaped base applied with flowers
22cm. high
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Lot Essay

Fasces, the emblem of higher Roman magistrates, signifying their authority to scourge and to behead.
The eagle, an ancient symbol of the Powder and Victory and was represented on the standards of Roman legions.

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