Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 10th January 2018
Lot 546
After the antique. A mid-19th century Italian Siena marble Grand Tour model of a Roman lamp
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £18000
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Description
After the antique. A mid-19th century Italian Siena marble Grand Tour model of a Roman lamp, the body in the form of an Egyptian winged female Pharaoh figure, the lid with a sleeping bust of a lady with an owl, with a detachable griffin handle, the base with female masks, the rosso antico marble plinth with inset classical panels, 39.7cm high.
See Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1984, Vol. II, p.131, fig.287, for a similar oil lamp signed 'B. Boschetti', in giallo antico, in the Museum Mario Praz, Rome.