AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER CENTREPIECE
THE PARCEL-GILT CENTREPIECE ROME, EARLY 20TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK CC MONOGRAM, THE BASE STAMPED D. LECLERK, DATED 1906
Modelled after Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Fountain of the Four Rivers, surmounted by the so-called Domitian Obelisk, finial lacking, flanked by a model of the Fontana del Moro, Fountain of the Moor, and a model of the Fontana del Nettuno, Fountain of Neptune, each initially designed by Giacomo della Porta and with later additions by Bernini and others, all on a tortoiseshell-veneered kingwood base with cast ormolu feet, the centrepieces marked on sides and some figures, the base stamped 'D. Leclerk Roma 1906'
The base: 64 ¼ in. (163 cm.) long
The centrepiece: 23 ¼ in. (59.5 cm.) high and smaller
AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER CENTREPIECE
THE PARCEL-GILT CENTREPIECE ROME, EARLY 20TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK CC MONOGRAM, THE BASE STAMPED D. LECLERK, DATED 1906
Modelled after Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Fountain of the Four Rivers, surmounted by the so-called Domitian Obelisk, finial lacking, flanked by a model of the Fontana del Moro, Fountain of the Moor, and a model of the Fontana del Nettuno, Fountain of Neptune, each initially designed by Giacomo della Porta and with later additions by Bernini and others, all on a tortoiseshell-veneered kingwood base with cast ormolu feet, the centrepieces marked on sides and some figures, the base stamped 'D. Leclerk Roma 1906'
The base: 64 ¼ in. (163 cm.) long
The centrepiece: 23 ¼ in. (59.5 cm.) high and smaller
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