Live Auction 2773A Palladian Villa By Michael S. Smith
AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL STYLE PATINATED-BRONZE JARDINIERE
Lot 113

AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL STYLE PATINATED-BRONZE JARDINIERE

POSSIBLY BY J. CHUIRAZZI, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed24 April 2013

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USD 6,000

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AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSICAL STYLE PATINATED-BRONZE JARDINIERE
POSSIBLY BY J. CHUIRAZZI, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The frieze decorated with bucrania and foliate garlands and with a lotus-cast edge, raised on three sphinx supports on paw feet and tripartite plinth
37.5 in. (95 cm) high, 21 in. (53 cm) diameter

Specialist note

Cast after the antique, this jardiniere is copied from the Roman prototype found at Pompeii which is today in the Museo Nazionale in Naples (L. Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli, Il Bronzo dei Romani, Rome, 1990, p. 155, fig. 110).