A pair of Italian painted faux porphyry and parcel-gilt vases and covers, Roman, 17th/18th century

each with a pinecone finial and gadrooned cover above a gadrooned baluster leaf carved body with scrolled handle on a circular base together with a further Italian painted wooden faux marble vase with a flaming urn finial gadrooned body, scrolled handles on a circular base

Sebastian Schutze, Palazzo Sacchetti, Rome, 2003, illustrated p. 117 in the Stanza di Annibale.

In overall good conserved condition. Old minor marks chips and scratches and minor retouching to the decoration and minor losses. There is a crack in the lid of one and smaller scattered cracks. Evidence of old minor worm which appears to be no longer active. One of the porphyry vases has a medium sized chip from the rim of the cover and an old repair to the neck. Restoration to the circular base of the same one. Single vase has three cracks in the neck and small loss from the scrolled handle.
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