AN ITALIAN BRONZE DOOR HANDLE

ATTRIBUTED TO CHIURAZZI, NAPLES, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

細節

AN ITALIAN BRONZE DOOR HANDLE
ATTRIBUTED TO CHIURAZZI, NAPLES, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
After the antique, the circular back-plate with Medusa's mask on an imbricated ground and with a reeded ring-handle
4¾ in. (12 cm.) diameter

來源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 July 1970, lot 173.

拍品專文

A handle of this model is listed and illustrated in Chiurazzi's catalogue of 1929 as item 569 and annotated as being the head of Medusa with eyes in silver and having been discovered at Pompeii. The celebrated Chiurazzi foundry was established by the sculptor J. Chiurazzi in 1870. A pupil of Professore Pierre Masulli, a pioneering sculptor who successfully reproduced 'antique' sculpture in the manner of Benvenuto Cellini, Chiurazzi established himself in the Galleria Principe di Napoli, next to the Museo Nazionale.