Live Auction 5974The Sunday Sale - Property from the Academy of Medical Sciences, removed from 41 Portland Place, W1 and The Robert Harling Collection
Christie’s roundel
Lot 146

A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE MODELS OF THE MEDICI VASE AND A SIMILAR CLASSICAL VASE

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed13 September 2009

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GBP 3,750

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A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE MODELS OF THE MEDICI VASE AND A SIMILAR CLASSICAL VASE
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
13½ in. (34.2 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

The present vases are loosely based around Antique kraters such as the Medici and Borghese vases. The Medici Vase was first recorded as 'pilo di marmo biancho storiato delle histoire d'Ifigenia' in the inventory of the Villa Medici in Rome made in 1598.
See Taste and the Antique, Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Yale University Press. Pages 314-316.