LATE 19TH CENTURY

The white carrera marble athenienne is almost certainly derived from antiquity, and is related to the marble tripod in the Museo Capitolino, Rome, illustrated in Piranesi's Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi... (J. Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi The Complete Etchings, vol. II, San Francisco, 1994, p. 985).
A virtually identical model formerly in the Fabius Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 19 October 2006, lot 72 ($60,000).