Lot 15
15
A PAIR OF BRONZE MODELS OF THE BORGHESE AND MEDICI VASES
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A PAIR OF BRONZE MODELS OF THE BORGHESE AND MEDICI VASES

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF BRONZE MODELS OF THE BORGHESE AND MEDICI VASES
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
After the 'Antique', on white marble plinths
The bronze -- 13¾ in. (35 cm.) high; 16¾ in. (42.6 cm.) overall (2)
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Lot Essay

This pair of decorative bronze garnitures, reductions of two of the grandest marble wine-krater vases of antiquity, were further popularised in the early 19th century following the Louvre's acquisition of the Borghese vase, with its frieze of bacchic figures.
These vases were possibly acquired for display on the dining-room sideboard-table.

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