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A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE VASES
ATTRIBUTED TO LUIGI AND GIUSEPPE VALADIER CIRCA 1785
Each with everted rim with beaded egg and acanthus-leaf dart moulding, the central body with a frieze depicting the thiasus above a gadrooned section with handles and a foliate and bulrush waist, the spreading socle with foliate mounts and encircled by a laurel wreath, on a square plinth
14 1⁄2 in. (36.5 cm.) high; 10 1⁄2 in. (27 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep
Provenance
Collection of Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) at Halton House, Buckinghamshire,
thence by descent to Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942),
thence by descent to Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916-2009), Exbury House, Hampshire.
Literature
Charles Davis and John Thomson A description of the works of art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, 1884, p.104-105, cat. no. 127.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
González-Palacios, Valadier, L'Album dei disegni del Museo Napoleonico, 2015, Rome.
González-Palacios, Luigi Valadier Splendor in 18th-century Rome, Frick Collection, 2018.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Details
A PAIR OF ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE BORGHESE VASES
ATTRIBUTED TO LUIGI AND GIUSEPPE VALADIER CIRCA 1785
Each with everted rim with beaded egg and acanthus-leaf dart moulding, the central body with a frieze depicting the thiasus above a gadrooned section with handles and a foliate and bulrush waist, the spreading socle with foliate mounts and encircled by a laurel wreath, on a square plinth
14 1⁄2 in. (36.5 cm.) high; 10 1⁄2 in. (27 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep
Provenance
Collection of Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) at Halton House, Buckinghamshire,
thence by descent to Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942),
thence by descent to Edmund Leopold de Rothschild (1916-2009), Exbury House, Hampshire.
Literature
Charles Davis and John Thomson A description of the works of art forming the collection of Alfred de Rothschild, 1884, p.104-105, cat. no. 127.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
González-Palacios, Valadier, L'Album dei disegni del Museo Napoleonico, 2015, Rome.
González-Palacios, Luigi Valadier Splendor in 18th-century Rome, Frick Collection, 2018.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
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