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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE VASES

Lot 14
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
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ID 791840
Lot 14 | A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE VASES
Estimate value
£ 150 000 – 250 000
A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE VASES

ATTRIBUTED TO LUIGI AND GIUSEPPE VALADIER, CIRCA 1785

Each with everted rim with beaded egg and acanthus-leaf dart moulding, the central body with a frieze depicting the thiasus above a gadrooned section with handles and a foliate and bulrush waist, the spreading socle with foliate mounts and encircled by a laurel wreath, on a square plinth

14 1⁄2 in. (36.5 cm.) high; 10 1⁄2 in. (27 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep





Provenance

Collection of Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) at Halton House, Buckinghamshire,

thence by descent to Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942),

thence by descent to Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916-2009), Exbury House, Hampshire.



Literature

Charles Davis and John Thomson, A description of the works of art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, 1884, p.104-105, cat. no. 127.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

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

González-Palacios, Luigi Valadier, Splendor in 18th-century Rome, Frick Collection, 2018.



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