BY VIKTOR VON BRODZKI, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

细节

A white marble tripod centrepiece
By Viktor von Brodzki, Second half 19th Century
Of a putto sleeping on a drapery bed within a scallop-shell, supported on three entwined dolphins, on shell-carved base and turtle feet, on triform stepped plinth and bronze claw feet, inscribed V. BRODZKI, restoration to two toes
47 in. (119 cm.) high

来源

Olga Nikolaievna, Grand Duchess of Russia and Queen of Würtemburg
thence by descent

拍场告示

Please note that the provenance for this lot should read Queen of Württemberg, and not Würtemburg, as spelt in the catalogue.

拍品专文

Born at Podoli, Poland, in 1825, Viktor von Brodzki spent the greater part of his life working in Rome, dying there in 1904.
A similar sleeping Cupid on dolphin pedestal by Brodzki, formerly in the collection of the Tsars, may be found at Tsarskoye Selò, Pushkin, Russia. The present example, possibly a pendant to the latter, formerly belonged to the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaievna (d. 1892). It is probable that it was given to the Duchess as a present either by her father, Tsar Nicholas I, or her brother, the ill-fated Tsar Alexander I.