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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN, ALABASTER AND JASPER OBELISK
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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN, ALABASTER AND JASPER OBELISK

ROME, LATE 18TH CENTURY

已结束2008年5月20日

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN, ALABASTER AND JASPER OBELISK
ROME, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Of typical form, the blue john obelisk with a beaded and laurel-cast socle resting on an alabastro egiziano plinth and foil-backed pink flecked translucent stone pedestal mounted to each corner with a ram's head issuing laurel, with laurel-cast foot on conforming diasporo rosso-veneered plinth, inscribed in pencil underneath 'L2046'
15½ in. (39.5 cm.) high

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The skillful combination of precious hardstones and elegant 'antique' form of this richly conceived obelisk is typical of the work of Roman bronziers of the end of the 18th Century such as Luigi and Giuseppe Valadier and Francesco Righetti. It is also interesting to note a design for a related obelisk by the noted English silversmith and bronzier Matthew Boulton, who in turn frequently looked to Rome for inspiration (see N. Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002, p. 267, fig. 223.3).