Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics

Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics

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A near pair of Italian granito verde a erbetta urns, circa 1920

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot closes

November 12, 03:41 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

Starting Bid

10,000 GBP

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Lot Details

Description

each with a gadrooned edge and body and two scrolled handles, each on a circular socle on a square base; with tall parcel-gilt simulated marble plinths


urn only: approx. 55cm high, 82cm wide, 66cm deep; 21 5/8in., 32 1/4in., 26in.

each plinth: 92cm high, 38.5cm wide; 36 1/4in., 15 1/8in.

According to Corsi, Granito verde erbetta comes from Wadi Umm Wikala in the eastern Egyptian dessert, and its name alludes to the green grassy appearance. It has also been called ofite because it was thought to come from Mons Ophyates (Wadi Semna). This name has been suggested to have come from 'ophytes' meaning snake, "because it was used in Hellenistic times for amulets to ward of the effects of snake bites, a superstition that persisted in Roman times" (https://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/corsi/stones/view/828).

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