Live Auction 19024The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue
A SWEDISH SVART BLYBERG PORPHYRY AND GREY MARBLE TAZZA
Lot 40

A SWEDISH SVART BLYBERG PORPHYRY AND GREY MARBLE TAZZA

ALVDALEN (ELFDAL), EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed27 January 2021

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A SWEDISH SVART BLYBERG PORPHYRY AND GREY MARBLE TAZZA
ALVDALEN (ELFDAL), EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With circular moulded flared lip above a tapering vessel on turned socle and stepped square plinth
13 ¼ in. (36.7 cm.) high, 16 ¾ in. (42.5 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

This tazza is based on a design of 1799 by Fredrik Ludvig Rung (nos. 7 and 25) and also relates to no. 25 of the 1805 priced catalogue of the Taillerie de Porphyre, at Älvdalen, Sweden.