An Italian gilt-bronze mounted carved 'rosso antico' marble athenienne after the antique, circa 1810-15

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

December 4, 03:22 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

the basin with a frieze set with finely cast and chased gilt-bronze scrolled foliate and double winged lions and athénienne mounts above a gadrooned border, supported by three winged female lion-monopodia with leaf finials joined by profusely scrolled foliate stretchers with a further central finial, the legs mounted ensuite with scrolled foliate mounts and terminating in paw feet, above a concave-sided tripartite base, losses to bronze stretcher

71cm high, 37.5cm. diam.; 28in., 14 ¾in.

Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, viceroy of Italy, Duke de Leuchtenberg, Prince of Eichstätt (1781-1824), most likely at Palais Leuchtenberg, Munich;

His widow Princess Augusta of Bavaria (1788-1851);

Sold with Palais Leuchtenberg in 1852 to her nephew, Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, later Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821-1912);

Thence by descent.

RELATED LITERATURE

Jörg Ebeling, “Objets d’une affection particuliere”: La collezioni di Eugenio di Beauhrnais a Milano, in Giovanna D’Amia, Il palazzo reale di Milano in eta napoleonica (1796-1814), Viterbo, 2017, pp.95-111.