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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 15, 2016 | Christie's | London | A Surreal Legacy: Selected works of art from The Edward James Foundation | 109 | $****** - ****** | A RUSSIAN PATINATED-BRONZE AND GREEN PORPHYRY TAZZA |
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Acquired by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Marquis of Douglas and later 10th Duke of Hamilton (1767-1852), possibly in Russia, when Ambassador in St Petersburg, circa 1807.
Thence by descent to William, 12th Duke of Hamilton (d. 1895), Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire; sold Christie's, London, 17 June-20 July 1882, lot 660, £630 to 'Duncan' (Christopher Beckett Denison).
Christopher Beckett Denison, Upper Grosvenor Street, W1; sold Christie's, London, 12 June 1885, lot 807 where bought by George Sinclair for William James for £294.
During Edward James's life this tazza was in the Top Corridor at Monkton House.
Russian Lists, n.d. ‘No. 4’, Hamilton Archives, 332, M.12.30, ‘I jatte de Porphyre verd soustenu par une figure en Bronze Ro: 1500’.
1825 Inventory of Hamilton Palace, [NRAS 332. M.4.70], p. 2 [Gallery], ‘Atlas carrying a Bason Bronze & Grey Granite £20’.
1835-40 Inventory of Hamilton Palace, [HTL 3438], p. 109 [Gallery], ‘A Grey Porphyry Vase upon a Bronze Atlas £40’.
1851 Inventory of Hamilton Palace, listed in the Gallery, ‘A fine Bronze Figure of Hercules supporting a fine vase of green Porphery on a red marble Base’, p. 131.
1855 Draft Deed of Entail of the Marbles, Bronzes, Objects of Vertu, Buhl, Pictures, Ornamental China and Library in Hamilton Palace and relative Inventories, To be executed by The Trustees of the late Alexander Duke of Hamilton, Brandon and Chatelherault, Edinburgh, Henry Ingles W.J, listed in the Gallery, ‘Bronze Figure of Hercules supporting a Vase of Green Porphyry, on a red marble base’, p. 11.
1876 Inventory of Hamilton Palace, [HTL 4551], p. 70 [Gallery], ‘A Circular Bowl of Green Porphyry 17 in diameter on the shoulders of Bronze Hercules & Plinth Height 25 in’.
William James, Inventory, WDMS. 3263, 1882-1904, ‘Objets d’Art, 19. Circular bowl of green porphyry 17 in. diam – supported by a figure of Hercules in bronze, on Verona marble plinth, 25 in. high. Christie’s, June 1884. Lot 807 Beckett Denison Sale. Illustrated in catalogue. From Hamilton Palace sale where it fetched £630.0.0…£304’.
The moulded circular basin supported on a figure of Hercules and an integral circular base, inventory label M212
