A TRAPANI GILT-COPPER AND CORAL HOLY-WATER FONT, the octagonal backplate overall inlaid with red coral and surrounded by pierced scrolling foliage and cherub's masks, centring on a red coral female figure surrounded by further cherub's masks, the angles with white enamel flower-heads, the circular font below with a turned ribbon band above cherub's masks, flower-head terminal, the reverse of the backplate engraved with a figure of Christ surrounded by foliate panels, Sicilian, late 17th Century | Christie's

Lot 140

140

A TRAPANI GILT-COPPER AND CORAL HOLY-WATER FONT, the octagonal backplate overall inlaid with red coral and surrounded by pierced scrolling foliage and cherub's masks, centring on a red coral female figure surrounded by further cherub's masks, the angles with white enamel flower-heads, the circular font below with a turned ribbon band above cherub's masks, flower-head terminal, the reverse of the backplate engraved with a figure of Christ surrounded by foliate panels, Sicilian, late 17th Century

Details

A TRAPANI GILT-COPPER AND CORAL HOLY-WATER FONT, the octagonal backplate overall inlaid with red coral and surrounded by pierced scrolling foliage and cherub's masks, centring on a red coral female figure surrounded by further cherub's masks, the angles with white enamel flower-heads, the circular font below with a turned ribbon band above cherub's masks, flower-head terminal, the reverse of the backplate engraved with a figure of Christ surrounded by foliate panels, Sicilian, late 17th Century
26.5 cm high x 18 cm wide

Provenance

The Princes of Arenberg, Belgium before 1918.

Lot Essay

A related Trapani holy-water stoop was sold, Anon. sale; Sotheby's, 8 December 1994, lot 135 (18,400 English pounds).

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