A PAIR OF ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY VASES

Lot 17
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£ 176 400
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Lot 17 | A PAIR OF ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY VASES
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£ 100 000 – 150 000
A PAIR OF ITALIAN IMPERIAL PORPHYRY VASES

CIRCA 1800-1810

Each of Grecian amphora form, the everted lip above a slender collared neck issuing square handles, the tapering body carved with a plain frieze, on a turned socle on a stepped circular base

27 ¾ in. (71 cm.) high; 7 ½ in. (19 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 following lot).

Sold Didier Aaron Ltd., London, June 1990.

Acquired from Peter Petrou.



Literature

D. del Bufalo, Porphyry, Red Imperial Porphyry, Power and Religion, Turin, 2012, p. 159, v. 148.

K.O. Bernheimer, Kunst und Tradition, Meisterwerke bedeutender Provenienzen, Munich, 1989, pp. 154-155, fig. 43.



Exhibited

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