The Giordano Collection: Une Vision Muséale Part I
The Giordano Collection: Une Vision Muséale Part I
An Italian silver-gilt cellaret with the coat-of-arms of the cardinal duke of York, by Luigi Valadier (1726-1785), Rome, circa 1785
Auction Closed
November 26, 04:58 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
on four eagle-shaped feet, the upper part with a frieze decorated with bucrania and laurel wreaths framed by two similar laurel friezes, the upper incorporating rose heads, with a third similar lower frieze , with elliptical plaques applied on both sides of the casket, cast and chased respectively with swans and herons catching a frog, the handles formed as vines issuing from lions’heads, the domed hinged cover embossed and chased with vines and grapes, surmounted by a finial of two putti cast in the round displaying the engraved coat-of-arms
Height 13 in., width 13⅜ in., depth 9 in.; Haut. 33 cm; larg. 34 cm; prof. 23 cm
Weight. 265,20 oz; Poids. 8250 gr.
Henri-Benedict Stuart, cardinal duke of York, Rome;
Collection of the Dukes of Hamilton, probably purchased by William, 11th Duke of Hamilton (1811-1863), before 1852;
Christie's London, Catalogue of Fine English and Foreign Silver Plate, the property of the Trustees of His Grace the late Duke of Hamilton, 4-8 November 1919, lot 111;
Sotheby's New York, 21 April 1983, lot 187;
Sotheby's Paris, 10 April 2008, lot 154. (the catalogue note of this lot had been written by Alvar Gonzales-Palacios)
K. Jones, European silver in the collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 2017, illustr. p. 332
Valadier, splendore nella Roma del Settecento, Galleria Borghese, The Frick Collection, New York, 2018, Rome, 30 October 2019-2 January 2020, p. 117-119. fig. 3_64.
A. Coliva,Valadier, splendore nella Roma del Settecento, Galerie Borghèse, Rome, 2019, p.274-275 (illustr).
A. Gonzalez-Palacios, I Valadier, Milan, 2019, illus. p 271.
Luigi Valadier, The Frick Collection, New York, 2018.
Valadier, splendore nella Roma del Settecento, Galleria Borghese, Rome, 30 October 2019-2 January 2020.