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A MONUMENTAL ITALIAN WHITE CARRERA MARBLE ATHENIENNE
Lot 102

A MONUMENTAL ITALIAN WHITE CARRERA MARBLE ATHENIENNE

LATE 19TH CENTURY

Fermé6 March 2014

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GBP 20,000

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A MONUMENTAL ITALIAN WHITE CARRERA MARBLE ATHENIENNE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
The circular basin with leaf-tip-carved edge above a guilloche rim and palmette-carved body, above a fluted baluster central stem and three square tapering fluted monopodia supports carved with stylized foliage and headed by busts of the philosophers Plato, Socrates and Aristotle on paw feet, joined by a triangular guilloche-carved stretcher, on a triangular leaf-tip-carved plinth base
62 ¾ in. (159.5 cm.) high; 38 in. (97 cm.) diameter

Note du spécialiste

The white carrera marble athenienne is almost certainly derived from antiquity, and is related to the marble tripod in the Museo Capitolino, Rome, illustrated in Piranesi's Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi... (J. Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi The Complete Etchings, vol. II, San Francisco, 1994, p. 985).
A virtually identical model formerly in the Fabius Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 19 October 2006, lot 72 ($60,000).

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