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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 30, 2020 | Christie's | London | Classic Art Evening Sale: Antiquity to 20th Century | 45 | $****** - ****** | AN ITALIAN EMPIRE ORMOLU GUERIDON |
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Probably commissioned in 1814 by Pope Pius VII for Alexander I of Russia.
Sold by the Soviet Union at auction with Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 6 November 1928, lot 77: described as 'Empiretisch, rund, aus vergoldeter Bronze und Platte aus schwarz-rot-grau gesprenkeltem Granit mit eingelegtem Kreuz aus farbigen Marmorplättchen. Vier von Großen Adlern bekrönte Füße mit Löwentatzen auf einer vierseitigen Sockelplatte stehend, tragen die Platte deren Dickseite von Palmetten in Relief umzogen ist, Durchm. 100, H. 94 cm.'
With Jansen, Paris.
The property of a distinguished European collector; Christie’s, London, 10 July 2014, lot 7.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
G. Babin, 'La Collection Wallace de Paris’, L’Illustration, 20 June 1914, pp. 551-554.
G. Babin, 'La Collection Wallace de Paris – suite', L’Illustration, 27 June 1914, pp. 573-575.
E. Colle, A. Griseri, R. Valeriani, Bronzi Decorativi in Italia, Milan, 2001, p. 66.
E. Dumonthier, Les Tables, style Louis XVI et Premier Empire, 1924.
P. Hughes, Wallace catalogue of furniture, p. 1545.
E. Hessling, Empire-Möbel, Berlin, 1910.
D. Ledoux-Lebard, 'Un present de Leon XII a Charles X’, Antologia di belle arti, 1977, no. 2, pp. 212-216.
A.F. Morris, 'Sir John Murray Scott’s Collection in the rue Laffitte’, The Connoisseur, Part I, August 1910, pp. 231-240 and Part 2, April 1911, pp. 215-222.
G. Seligmann, Merchants of Art, New York, 1961.
J. Wilton-Ely, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, San Francisco, 1994, plates 916 and 918.
1912 inventory for 2 rue Laffitte, Paris.
The circular pink granite top inlaid with a cross in square marble specimens, set within a tooled surround with anthemion decorated frieze, above four eagles with spread wings surmounting acanthus-wrapped monopodia supports joined by foliate scrolled stretchers and terminating in paw feet, on a concave-sided plinth base with ball feet
