A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED JASPER, BLOODSTONE, GREEN PORPHYRY AND RED MARBLE CUPS

Lot 33
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Lot 33 | A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED JASPER, BLOODSTONE, GREEN PORPHYRY AND RED MARBLE CUPS
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED JASPER, BLOODSTONE, GREEN PORPHYRY AND RED MARBLE CUPS

ATTRIBUTED TO LUIGI VALADIER, CIRCA 1770, THE CONTEMPORARY BASE ATTRIBUTED TO LUIGI VALADIER AND UNITED WITH THE CUPS AT A LATER DATE

The cup with reeded rim and intertwining serpent handles on a turned spreading socle, on a stepped square plinth, the lower section mounted with rams' heads joined by vine swags, on a laurel-wreath moulded base

11 1/4 in. (28.5 cm.) high; 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm.) wide





Provenance

Collection of Pierre-Paul-Louis Randon de Boisset (1708-1776),

sold without red marble bases, Paris, 27 February -25 March 1777, lot 472.

Acquired by Monsieur Aubert,

sold at his sale, Paris, 5 October 1797.

Collection of baron Roger,

sold his sale, Paris, 20-22 December 1841, lot 122.

Collection of Baroness Edouard de Rothschild (1884-1975)

Acquired by Galerie Maurice Segoura.

Private Collection, Paris.

Sold in their current form Christie's, Paris, 21 June 2006, lot 129.





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

P. Remy, C.-F. Julliot, Catalogue de tableaux & [...] figures de marbres [...] du cabinet de feu M. Randon de Boisset, Pierre-Paul-Louis Randon de Boisset, Paris, 1777.

A. González-Palacios, L Valadier L'Album dei disegni del Museo Napoleonico, Rome, 2015.



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