AN ITALIAN GRAND TOUR PAVONAZZETTO AND GREEN MARBLE TRIPOD TABLE INCORPORATING AN ANCIENT ROMAN TRAPEZOPHORUS
06.07.2023 12:00UTC +00:00
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239400GBP £ 239 400
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ID 992755
Lot 5 | AN ITALIAN GRAND TOUR PAVONAZZETTO AND GREEN MARBLE TRIPOD TABLE INCORPORATING AN ANCIENT ROMAN TRAPEZOPHORUS
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
18TH CENTURY AND 1ST CENTURY A.D.
39 1/2 in. (100 cm.) high; the table top 25 in. (63.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
By repute from Hadrian's Villa, acquired by Thomas Hope circa 1798.
Thomas Hope (1769-1831), London and the Deepdene, Surrey.
Thence by descent to Lord Henry Francis Hope Pelham-Clinton-Hope (1866-1941), the Deepdene.
The Celebrated Collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian Sculpture and Ancient Vases being a portion of The Hope Heirlooms; Christie's, London, 23-24 July 1917, lot 187.
Bought by Durlacher at the above sale for 190 gns (£199.10s), for Baron Bruno Schroder.
Baron Bruno Schroder (1865- 1940), Dell Park, Surrey; and thence by descent.
Literature
Hope Marbles, (a folio volume held at the Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London, undated).
Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbrooke, "The Outlines of Statues", unpublished engravings of the collection (re-used the engravings for the Hope Marbles) c. 1810-1813, pl. 13.
C.M. Westmacott, British Galleries of Paintings and Sculpture, London, 1824, p. 228 (recorded in the Picture Gallery at Duchess Street).
J.P. Neale, Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, Vol III, London, 1826, The Deep-Dene, Surrey, pp. 7-8.
G. F. Prosser, Select Illustrations of the County of Surrey, Interesting Remains with Descriptions, London, 1828, Deepdene.
M. Girouard, Life in the English Country House, Aylesbury, 1980, pl. XXVI.
G.B. Waywell, The Lever and Hope Sculptures, Berlin, 1986, p. 104, fig. 15, no. 78.
T. Schroder, Renaissance Silver from the Schroder Collection, London, 2007, p. 22.
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Art style: | Ancient Art |
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Place of origin: | Roman Empire |
Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
Art style: | Ancient Art |
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Place of origin: | Roman Empire |
Auction house category: | Ancient Art & Antiquities |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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