A NEAR PAIR OF ITALIAN EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY COVERED URNS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A NEAR PAIR OF ITALIAN EGYPTIAN PORPHYRY COVERED URNS
Early 19th century
Each with a domed lid and tapering body with a waisted socle and square plinth, raised on an associated Siena marble veneered pedestal and a rouge campan moulded plinth, the underside of each lid with an old inventory label inscribed in black ink 6551/2....(?), the unerside of each urn also inscribed in crayon 6551, small differences in the proportions of the turning, and the porphyry
13¾in. (35cm.) high overall (2)

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A very similar pair of Egyptian porphyry vases with domed lids are in the Palazzo Pitti and are believed to have been made in Florence circa 1800 - 1810 (M. Chiarini and S. Padovani, Gli Appartamenti Reali de Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 1993, p. 297, cat. XIII.18).

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