These pedestals richly carved in the Renaissance manner display heraldic escutcheons with the arms of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, festooned with ribbon-tied triumphal laurels. Executed in Florence in 1872 and 1874 and carved by M. Wilson whose apprenticed to C. Minati of Florence, it is possible that the pedestals were originally purchased by Sir William to display the bronze reductions of Michaelangelo's marble sculptures of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici (lot 18) as their ornament harmonises in many ways with that of the Basilica di San Lorenzo. The fine quality carving of these pedestals relates closely to the work of Luigi Frullini (d.1897) of Florence, who in 1872 executed a carved stand for a terracotta figure and a portfolio stand, (now in the Victoria & Albert Museum), for the London house of William Richard Drake (d.1890) (see J. Fleming 'Art Dealing in the Risorgimento', Burlington Magazine, September 1979 p.571)