French or Italian, late 18th/ early 19th century
Medici Vase
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
French or Italian, late 18th/ early 19th century
Medici Vase
white marble, with a metallic inner lining, on a later socle, on a modern square stone base
vase: 108cm., 42½in. overall
76cm., 29⅞in. diameter
base: 41 by 53.3 by 53.5cm., 16⅛ by 21 by 21in.
(2)
Kâ-Mondo, Paris, 10 March 2017, lot 282;
Cabinet Alberto Pinto, Paris, 2017.
The monumental marble krater in Pentelic marble, generally dated to the late 1st century BC and known as the Medici Vase, was discovered in Rome in the 1570s. It entered the Medici collections in Rome, notably at the Villa Medici, before being transferred by Ferdinando to his villa on the Pincian Hill. In 1780, the ancient marble was brought to Florence, together with part of the Medici’s Roman collections, where it is now preserved in the Galleria degli Uffizi (inv. 1914, no. 307).
RELATED LITERATURE
F. Haskell, N. Penny, Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, revised and expanded edition by A. Aymonino and E. Dodero, vol. 1, Turnhout, 2024, no. 82, pp. 523-526.
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