ID 1134544
Los 17 | A PAIR OF ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY VASES
Schätzwert
£ 100 000 – 150 000
CIRCA 1800-1810
Each of Grecian amphora form, the everted lip above a slender collared neck issuing square handles, the tapering body carved with a plain frieze, on a turned socle on a stepped circular base
27 ¾ in. (71 cm.) high; 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Almost certainly acquired by Sir Alexander Hope (1769-1837).
His house in Mayfair.
By descent to Henry W. Hope at Luffness House, where moved in 1888.
Sold by order of the trustees in 1923.
Sold Phillips, Knowle, 7 June 1989, lot 145 (together with the following lot).
Sold Didier Aaron Ltd., London, June 1990.
Acquired from Peter Petrou.
Literature
D. del Bufalo, Porphyry, Red Imperial Porphyry, Power and Religion, Turin, 2012, p. 159, v. 148.
K.O. Bernheimer, Kunst und Tradition, Meisterwerke bedeutender Provenienzen, Munich, 1989, pp. 154-155, fig. 43.
Exhibited
London, Grosvenor House Fine Art and Antiques Fair, 1989.
| Material: | Stein |
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| Historische Ära: | Periode von Ludwig XVI. |
| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Frankreich, Europa |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Vasen und Gefäße |
| Material: | Stein |
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| Historische Ära: | Periode von Ludwig XVI. |
| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Frankreich, Europa |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Vasen und Gefäße |
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