ID 1134544
Lot 17 | A PAIR OF ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY VASES
Estimate value
£ 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.
| Medium: | Stone |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Vases and vessels |
| Medium: | Stone |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Vases and vessels |
| Address of auction |
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