A pair of Italian strigillated Nero di Belgio urns, after a Roman model
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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
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30,000 - 50,000 EUR
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A pair of Italia👍n strigillated Nero di Belgio urns, after a Roman model
circular, on🙈 square porphyry bases, after the white marble Roman model (1st century d.C.) in the ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚGalleria dei Candelabri, Vatican Museums
height 15¼in.; width 19 3⁄4in.; deptꦜh 19⁄14n.; 39 c💧m.; 50 cm.; 49 cm.
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Paire d'urnes en marbre noir de Belgique, Italie, d'après 🦋un modèle Romain
height 15¼in.; width 19 3⁄4in.; d♎epth 19⁄14n.; 39 cm.; 50 cm.; 49 cm.
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Acquired from Frank Partridge, London, 2011.
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Acquis auprès de Frank Partridge, Londres, 2011.
These beautiful vases, with sharp carving and fine polished surface, are carved in a deep black marble from Belgium, and are after a Roman model from 1st century A.D. in white marble, today in the Galleria dei Cande♓labri in the Museo Pio Clementino at the V✅atican.
A rare material used for sculpture or vases, there is nonetheless a small group of pieces in Nero di Belgio at Villa Borghese, Rome, commissioned in the 17th century 𝐆by Marcantonio Borghese from Alessandro Algardi and Silvio Calci, the later a specialist hardstone carver, who also made impressive porphyry vases for the Doria-Pamphil♌j family.