CAST AFTER THE MARBLE ANTIQUE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Details

An Italian bronze urn
Cast after the marble Antique, last quarter 19th century
Of Campana form with twin pairs of adorsed heads in relief on the sides
12½in. (31.8cm.) high
And a pair of gilt bronze and marble mounted candlesticks, foliate cast, on square bases, adapted -- 5in. (12.8cm.) high (3)

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Lot Essay

The marble vase upon which this model was based was recorded by Piranesi as having been a part of the legendary collection of Sir William Beckford.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Giovani Battista Piranesi Part One of Architecture and Perspectives: Imagined and Etched by Gio. Batt.a Piranesi, Venetian Architect: Dedicated to Nicola Giobbe., Pagliarini Brothers, Rome, 1743

Luigi Ficacci, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Complete Etchings, Taschen 2000, p.597.

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