A PAIR OF ITALIAN PATINATED-BRONZE, ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE BUSTS OF BACCHUS AND ARIANNA , AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Sale 9614

Continental Furniture, Tapestries and Works of Art and

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29 - 30 March 2001

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Lot 3

A PAIR OF ITALIAN PATINATED-BRONZE, ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE BUSTS OF BACCHUS AND ARIANNA

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Price realised

USD 5,875

Estimate

USD 3,000 - USD 5,000

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN PATINATED-BRONZE, ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE BUSTS OF BACCHUS AND ARIANNA
After the Antique, Late 18th/Early 19th Century
Each with a downcast face, his hair with grape vines, hers braided with ivy, on molded bases and reeded columns with a laurel-cast foot and square base
17¼in. (44cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 26 April 1990, lot 72 ($6,600).
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Lot Essay

This pair of busts are comparable to two pairs of busts, one attributed to Luigi Righetti, and a pair attributed to G. Boschi, both illustrated in A. González-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi, Arte del Corte del XVIII secolo, Milan, 1993, figs. 511 and 554, respectively.

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Lot 3

A PAIR OF ITALIAN PATINATED-BRONZE, ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE BUSTS OF BACCHUS AND ARIANNA

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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