Un autre regard : Collection Edric van Vredenburgh, Part I
Un autre regard : Collection Edric van Vredenburgh, Part I
The Hever Castle Porphyry Table, 1st/2nd century A.D. and later | Une table en porphyre du Château d'Hever, vers le Ier/IIe siècle ap. J.-C. avec des additions ultérieures
Auction Closed
April 13, 03:37 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
The Hever Castle Porphyry Table, 1st/2nd century A.D. and later
the integral base and shaft probably from a Roman labrum (basin), circa 1st/2nd century A.D., the capital and tabletop 16th/19th century additions
Height 35½in; width 28½in; prof 28⅓in
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Une table en porphyre du château d'Hever, vers le Ier/IIe siècle ap. J.-C. avec des additions ultérieures
une table en porphyre, base et fût taillés d'une pièce et provenant probablement d'un labrum (bassin) romain, vers le Ier/IIe siècle ap. J.-C., le chapiteau et dessus de table additions du 16ème/19ème siècle.
Haut. 90 cm, larg. 72,5 cm, prof. 72 cm
William Waldorf Astor, Villa Sirena, Sorrento, Italy; probably acquired from Attilio Simonetti in April 1906, listed as ‘Tavolo Pompeiano in porfido’, 12,000 lira (Hever Castle Archives, Purchase ledger, AD21.3/1906)
Then by descent at Hever Castle, Kent;
sold by the Lord Astor of Hever, Sotheby's London, Antiquities, 11th and 12th July 1983, probably lot 380 (unillustrated), when acquired by the present owner.
Gavin Astor, Statuary and Sculpture at Hever, 1969, p. 11, nr. 95, (illustrated with a drawing, located then in the Rose Garden)
Clive Aslet, ‘Hever Castle, Kent – II’, in Country Life, 8th January 1981, pp. 66-69
Related Literature
Annarena Ambrogi, Labra di Età romana in marmi bianchi e colorati (Rome: L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2005), pp.349-350, p.586, cat. no. S. 11.
Dario del Bufalo, Porphyry, Red Imperial Porphyry. Power & Religion, 2013, pp. 195-197.