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拍品专文
This fine pair of bronze-mounted blue-john vases is closely related to a vase of large proportions in the collection of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (T. Ford, Derbyshire Blue John, Ashbourne, 2000, p. 86). The latter was made in 1815 by James Shore of Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, and at 24 inches high including the plinth was reputedly the largest ever made. After Shore's death the vase was acquired by John Mawe, another blue john craftsman, with premises in Matlock, Castleton, Cheltenham, Scarborough and London, and subsequently his former assistant, William Adam, who included a design for the vase in his Gem of the Peak, 3rd edition 1843, and 4th edition 1848. The Shore vase was probably acquired by the Duke of Devonshire from Adam's sale in 1849.
The present pair, and the Shore vase, are modeled on an Apulian krater vase dated circa 330 BC, illustrated in Pierre d'Hancarville's Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. Wm. Hamilton, Vol. I, published in Naples in 1766. Hamilton, a prolific collector of antiquities, in particular Greek and Roman vases, brought his collection to England in 1772; it was later sold to the British Museum. The model was fashionable and reproduced in other media, in 1790, Josiah Wedgwood created comparable vases in black basalt, and in 1807, Thomas Hope included similar vases in bronze and gilt-metal in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, plates V and XII.
Related blue john krater vases sold Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2012, lot 4 ($338,500 including premium), and 9 April 2009, lot 144 ($152,500 including premium).
The present pair, and the Shore vase, are modeled on an Apulian krater vase dated circa 330 BC, illustrated in Pierre d'Hancarville's Collection of Etruscan, Greek, and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. Wm. Hamilton, Vol. I, published in Naples in 1766. Hamilton, a prolific collector of antiquities, in particular Greek and Roman vases, brought his collection to England in 1772; it was later sold to the British Museum. The model was fashionable and reproduced in other media, in 1790, Josiah Wedgwood created comparable vases in black basalt, and in 1807, Thomas Hope included similar vases in bronze and gilt-metal in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, plates V and XII.
Related blue john krater vases sold Sotheby's, New York, 27 January 2012, lot 4 ($338,500 including premium), and 9 April 2009, lot 144 ($152,500 including premium).