A Pair of Spanish Renaissance Veined Marble Columns, Probably Seville, Late 15th Century
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Pair of Spanish Renaissance Veined Marble Columns, Probably Seville, Late 15th Century
of circular form; with moulded square tops above foliate scroll capitals and raised on foliate moulded square bases
height 84 ¼ in. and 83 ¾ in.; width 13 in. square
214 and 213 cm; 33 cm
Sotheby's Paris, 28 November 2016, lot 21;
Where acquired by the present collector.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Xavier Dectot, Sculptures Romanes et du premier art gothique XIe -XIIe siècle, Paris 2005, p. 192, no. 197
Man Came This Way: Objects from the Phil Berg Collection, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971
The elegantly simplified scroll and foliate decoration of the capitals of these columns is inspired by Islamic and medieval ornament rather than classical forms and is typical of late medieval and early Renaissance work in Seville, seen for example on columns in the Alcazar and the Casa de Pilatos, completed in the sixteenth century. A very similar set of four 16th-century Andalusian marble columns formerly in William Randolph Hearst Collection at Hearst Castle, San Simeon and exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1971 was sold Sotheby's London, 9 October 2013, lot 112.
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