ID 1134474
Lot 18 | AN ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY TAZZA
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
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.
| Medium: | Stone |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Medium: | Stone |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
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