An Italian marmo rosso antico tazza

PROBABLY THE WORKSHOPS OF BENEDETTO BOSCHETTI, MID 19TH CENTURY

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An Italian marmo rosso antico tazza
Probably the workshops of Benedetto Boschetti, mid 19th century
The square flaring dish with egg and dart moulded rim modelled to the underside of the angles with displayed swans, the centre of the dish with a circular fluted depression enclosing an acanthus carved boss above corresponding lobed ornament to the underside, on a spreading fluted socle surmounted by further egg and dart moulding to the upper collar, on a square stepped and moulded plinth with marmo nero Belgio platform
26½in. (67.3cm) high, 17¼in. (43.8cm) sq

拍品专文

Two designs for loosely related pedestal-supported tazze in the 'Antique' manner, lacking the swans feature in A.N. Voronikhina Malachite in the Hermitage Collection, Leningrad 1963, figs.58-9.
Benedetto Boschetti, 74 Via Condotti, Rome, fl.1820-1870, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition 1851. The Boschetti workshop was renowned for the exceptional quality of its copies after the 'Antique', mainly in marble and bronze: for example a marmo rosso antico reduction of the Warwick Vase, currently in the Toledo Museum, Ohio. See A. Gonzalez-Palacios Il Tempo del Gusto, Roma e il regno delle Duo Sicilie, Milan 1984, Vol II, fig.286. F.S. Bonfigli noted in 1856 that 'The establishment is particularly conspicuous for its great variety of marble works, bronzes etc'. See A. Gonzalez-Palacios, The Art of Mosaics, 1982. P.166.