A LOUIS XV STYLE GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED PORPHYRY VASE LATE 19TH CENTURY

Private collection;

Parisian antique market;

Then acquired by the present owner.

Dario del Bufalo, Porphyry: Red Imperial, Power and Religion, 2012, p. 147, V66.

This vase is after a 17th century Roman vase with mid-18th century mounts in the collections of the Louvre Museum (inv. no. MR 2818), that belonged to the marquis de Marigny and then acquired by the Crown in 1779.