AN ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY TAZZA

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Lot 18 | AN ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY TAZZA
AN ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY TAZZA

LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ROME

The shallow bowl with everted rim, on a ring-turned spreading moulded socle and square plinth

10 in. (26 cm.) high; 18 ½ in. (47 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 preceding lot).

Sold Didier Aaron Ltd., London, June 1990.

Acquired from Peter Petrou.



Literature

D. del Bufalo, Porphyry, Red Imperial Porphyry Power and Religion, Turin, 2013, p. 157, v. 129.

K.O. Bernheimer, Kunst und Tradition, Meisterwerke bedeutender Provenienzen, Munich, 1989, pp. 154-155.



Exhibited

London, Grosvenor House Fine Art and Antiques Fair, 1989.
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