Lot Essay
A design for a related pedestal-supported tazza in the 'Antique' manner, lacking the swans, features in A.N. Voronikhina Malachite in the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad 1963, fig.59.
A similar tazza carved in marmo rosso antico was sold these rooms 28 April 1993, lot 288.
Benedetto Boschetti, 74 Via Condotti, Rome, active c.1820-1870, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition 1851. The Boschetti workshop was renowned for the exceptional quality of its copies, mostly in marble and of Antique vases and objects: for example, a marmo rosso antico reduction of the Warwick Vase currently in the Toledo Museum, Ohio. See A. Gonzalez-Palacios Il Tempo del Gusto, Roma e il regno delle Duo Sicilie, Milan 1984, Vol II, fig.286. F.S. Bonfigli noted in 1856 that 'The Establishment is particularly conspicuous for its great variety of marble works, bronzes, etc.' See A. Gonzalez-Palacios The Art of Mosaics, 1982, p.166.
A similar tazza carved in marmo rosso antico was sold these rooms 28 April 1993, lot 288.
Benedetto Boschetti, 74 Via Condotti, Rome, active c.1820-1870, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition 1851. The Boschetti workshop was renowned for the exceptional quality of its copies, mostly in marble and of Antique vases and objects: for example, a marmo rosso antico reduction of the Warwick Vase currently in the Toledo Museum, Ohio. See A. Gonzalez-Palacios Il Tempo del Gusto, Roma e il regno delle Duo Sicilie, Milan 1984, Vol II, fig.286. F.S. Bonfigli noted in 1856 that 'The Establishment is particularly conspicuous for its great variety of marble works, bronzes, etc.' See A. Gonzalez-Palacios The Art of Mosaics, 1982, p.166.