A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE AND MEDICI VASES

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE AND MEDICI VASES
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each with everted rim carved with a frieze of classical figures and the handles ending in mask terminals, on a fluted socle and square plinth, fitted for electricity
14in. (35.5cm.) high, 9in. (23cm.) diameter (2)

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Discovered in the late 16th century, the Borghese vase was in that family's collections by 1645. It was brought 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 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