19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ALBANI VASE

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE VASE
19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ALBANI VASE
The lid with pine-cone finial and gadrooned edge above a gadrooned body divided by rope-twist, with spirally-fluted handles, on a turned moulded socle
20 in. (51 cm.) high; 22¼ in. (56.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl. 48, no. 3 notes that the pattern of this vase was 'copied from antiques in the Albani and Barberini collections'. Hope had this pattern copied and a pair was made and placed at one end of his sculpture gallery at Duchess Street, as guardians to the entrance to the other rooms of his mansion museum. The latter pair [The Hope 'Vasi-Cippi'] was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 16 November 1989, lot 14.

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