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BASSIN EN VERMEIL ITALIEN ET AIGUIERE EN VERMEIL

Lot 14
30.06.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 780241
Lot 14 | BASSIN EN VERMEIL ITALIEN ET AIGUIERE EN VERMEIL
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€ 200 000 – 300 000
BASSIN EN VERMEIL ITALIEN ET AIGUIERE EN VERMEIL

LE BASSIN PAR NASTASIUS TORREXIENGHUS, GÊNES, 1635, L'AIGUIERE APPAREMMENT SANS POINCON, VERS 1635

Le bassin circulaire repoussé sur l'aile et le fond d'un décor de cuirs, centrés de vases fleuris et de rapaces sur fond amati, l'ombilic saillant repoussé des armoiries des Fonsecca sous un chapeau d'évêque cintré d'une bordure gravée de feuilles dans une couronne repoussée de grotesques et enroulements, l'aiguière sur piédouche à décor assorti avec anse en harpe perlée, le bec verseur en masque de faune, le couvercle à charnière avec prise en bourgeon, gravé sous le bec des mêmes armoiries, poinçons sur l'aile: ville, millésime et maître-orfèvre

D. du bassin: 47 cm. (18 1⁄2 in.); H. de l'aiguière: 28 cm. (11 in.)

Poids total: 3652 gr. (117 oz. 8 dwt.)

Les armoiries sont celles de l'évêque Pietro Vico d'Oristano, plus tard évêque de Cagliari (1601-1678), vice-roi intérimaire de Sardaigne en 1661-1662.





Provenance

Pietro Vico (1601-1676), évêque d'Oristano, plus tard évêque de Cagliari (1601-1678),

Graf János Pállfy (1829-1908), aristocrate hongrois et célèbre collectionneur d'art,

Vente Pollak & Winternitz avec Glu¨ckselig, Vienne, 27 mai 1924, lot 135.

Galerie Kugel, Paris, 1993.



Literature

La inventaire de l'orfeverie de Pietro Vico évêque de Cagliari, Archivio Capitolare Cagliari, vol. 202, 1676⁄91.

M. Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Berlin, 1928, vol. 4, p. 366, nos. 7374-7375.

Catalogue de la XVI Biennale dell'antiquariato, Florence, 1989, pp. 342-343.

F. Boggero and F. Simonetti, Lo Splendore delgi Argenti do Genova, Turin, 1991, pp. 102, 237, fig. 182.

A. Pasolini and M. Porcu Gaias, Argenti di Sardegna, Caligari, 2016, pp. 187-188.



Exhibited

Florence, XVI Biennale dell'antiquariato, 1989

Genova, Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola - Galleria di Palazzo Reale, Genova nell'Eta Barocca, 1992, cat. no. 12.



Post lot text

AN ITALIAN SILVER-GILT BASIN AND EWER, THE BASIN WITH MARK OF NASTASIUS TORREXIENGHUS, GENOVA, 1635, THE EWER APPARENTLY UNMARKED, ATTRIBUTED TO OF NASTASIUS TORREXIENGHUS, GENOVA, CIRCA 1635
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Gilding, Silver
Place of origin:Italy, Europe, Spain
Category:Wash basin
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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