Live Auction 16270The Collector: English and European 18th and 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics, Silver & Works of Art
ITALIAN NERO ANTICO MARBLE MODELS OF THE SOLAR OBELISK AND THE LATERAN OBELISK
Lot 328 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PIRANESEUM

ITALIAN NERO ANTICO MARBLE MODELS OF THE SOLAR OBELISK AND THE LATERAN OBELISK

ROME, CIRCA 1850

Closed23 October 2018

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USD 32,500

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ITALIAN NERO ANTICO MARBLE MODELS OF THE SOLAR OBELISK AND THE LATERAN OBELISK
ROME, CIRCA 1850
Each modeled after the antique, incised with dedication inscriptions on all four sides, one raised on a nero antico marble plinth, the other raised on a rouge giotte marble plinth
35 in. (88.9 cm.) high, the taller

Specialist note

There are more ancient Egyptian obelisks decorating Rome than there are in Egypt. The Lateran Obelisk, originally erected at Karnak, whose model is the shorter of the two offered here, is the world’s tallest standing Egyptian obelisk.