A PAIR OF CORAL, GILT-COPPER AND PAINTED-METAL AND CORK `FANTASTIC GARDENS`

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Lot 545 | A PAIR OF CORAL, GILT-COPPER AND PAINTED-METAL AND CORK 'FANTASTIC GARDENS'
A PAIR OF CORAL, GILT-COPPER AND PAINTED-METAL AND CORK 'FANTASTIC GARDENS'

TRAPANI, SICILY, MID-17TH CENTURY

Each with a shaped hexagonal base overlaid with gilt-copper and decorated with applied red coral scrolls and gilded shells, with naturalistic rockwork gardens, with branches of red and white coral; one with a red coral branch center and red coral baroque cartouche at front of base; the other with a white coral center branch and red coral grotesque mask at front of base

8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high, with center red coral

7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) high, with center white coral





Provenance

(possibly) Acquired by the Prince Claude-Lamoral 3e de Ligne (1610-1679), Château de Beloeil, Belgium.

By descent to the Prince de Ligne, Château de Beloeil; sold Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 4.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

‌M. Concetta di Natale, Coralli: talismani sacri e profani: catalogo della mostra L'arte del corallo in Sicilia, Palermo, 1986, p. 5-21.
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