Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I : Chefs-d’oeuvre

Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I : Chefs-d’oeuvre

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A magnificent pair of Egyptian porphyry vases, Rome, circa 1680-1710

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Auction Closed

October 11, 05:25 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 2,000,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

A magnificent pair of Egyptian porphyry vases, Rome, circa 1680-1710


each urn-shaped, with carved female masks to both sides with pleated hair, flanked by scrolling handles with satyr masks; the body with an egg and dot frieze rim, spiral fluted to upper part and gadroons to lower, resting on a waisted fluted socle with carved acanthus edge, on a square plinth base, the stepped moulded cover carved with gadroons and topped by an acorn finial

height 44½in.; width 26 in.; 113 cm.; 66 cm.


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Paire de grands vases en porphyre d'Egypte, Rome, vers 1680-1710


height 44½in.; width 26 in.; 113 cm.; 66 cm.


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Collection Arturo Lopez Willshaw, Hôtel Rodocanachi, Neuilly-sur-Seine;

Galerie J. Kugel, Paris 2007.

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Collection Arturo Lopez Willshaw, Hôtel Rodocanachi, Neuilly-sur-Seine;

Galerie J. Kugel, Paris, 2007.

Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2018, no. 69 a,b

D. Del Bufalo, Porphyry: Red Imperial Porphyry, Power and Religion, 2012, ill. p. 149, v.81.

C. Connolly & J. Zerbe, Les Pavillons, French Pavilions of the 18th century, 1962, ill. p202.

Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2018, no. 69
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