A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE VASES

19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE VASES
19th Century
Each campana-shaped body with an egg-and-dart rim and a body decorated with classical figures, with reeded and mask form handles to the sides on a fluted socle and plinth base (2)

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Discovered in the late 16th century, the Borghese vase was in that family's collections by 1645. It was bought from Prince Camillo Borghese in 1807 by his brother-in-law Napoleon Bonaparte and is now in the Louvre. The Medici vase was almost certainly in their Florentine collection by the mid-16th century. Now thought to date from the second-half of the 1st Century A.D., it is in the Uffizi. When paired as here, it was customary for the copy of the Borghese vase to be given the krater form of the Medici vase when the original does not have handles.