AN ITALIAN GRAND TOUR POLYCHROME MARBLE AND ALABASTER TRIPOD TABLE INCORPORATING THREE ANCIENT ROMAN TRAPEZOPHORI AND A LABRUM

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Lot 4 | AN ITALIAN GRAND TOUR POLYCHROME MARBLE AND ALABASTER TRIPOD TABLE INCORPORATING THREE ANCIENT ROMAN TRAPEZOPHORI AND A LABRUM
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AN ITALIAN GRAND TOUR POLYCHROME MARBLE AND ALABASTER TRIPOD TABLE INCORPORATING THREE ANCIENT ROMAN TRAPEZOPHORI AND A LABRUM

18TH CENTURY AND 1ST CENTURY A.D.

36 in. (92 cm.) high; the table top 26 1/2 in. (67 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 186.

Bought by Durlacher at the above sale for 460 gns (£483), 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) pl. 9.

Rev. T. D. Fosbrooke, "The Outlines of Statues", unpublished engravings of the collection (re-used as the engravings for the Hope Marbles) c. 1810-1813.

C. M. Westmacott, British Galleries of Paintings and Sculpture, London, 1824, p. 223 (recorded in the Statue 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.

Rev. T. D. Fosbrooke, Encyclopedia of antiquities: and Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediæval, Vol I, London, 1825, p. 293, fig 16.

G. F. Prosser, Select Illustrations of the County of Surrey, Interesting Remains with Descriptions, London, 1828, Deepdene.

G. B. Waywell, The Lever and Hope Sculptures, Berlin, 1986, pp. 103-104, no. 77.

D. Watkin, Thomas Hope and the Neoclassical Idea, London, 1968, p. 170, no. 62.

C. F. Moss, Roman Marble Tables, Princeton, 1988, p. 41, no. 67.

T. Schroder, Renaissance Silver from the Schroder Collection, London, 2007, p. 22.

D. Watkins & P. Hewatt-Jaboor (eds), Thomas Hope, Regency Designer, New Haven and London, 2008, pp. 326-327, no. 45.



Exhibited

Thomas Hope: Regency Designer, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 21 March - 22 June 2008 and The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, 17th July-16th November 2008.



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