22nd Feb, 2020 10:00
The February Sale | Fine Art, Antiques & Jewellery
After Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Italian
'The Piranesi Vase', depicting the famous 'Piranesi Vase' (at the British Museum), a marble urn with a frieze of satyrs, supported by three satyr-grotesques above a pedestal adorned with bulls-heads and garlands, and with inscription dedicated to the Scottish Jacobite Mr James Byres , engraving plate '59 for the 'Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi (published in two volumes in 1778), within an important mirrored frame, 64 cm x 50 cm (print).
Sold for £100
Condition Report
Some yellowing and foxing.
After Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) Italian
'The Piranesi Vase', depicting the famous 'Piranesi Vase' (at the British Museum), a marble urn with a frieze of satyrs, supported by three satyr-grotesques above a pedestal adorned with bulls-heads and garlands, and with inscription dedicated to the Scottish Jacobite Mr James Byres , engraving plate '59 for the 'Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi (published in two volumes in 1778), within an important mirrored frame, 64 cm x 50 cm (print).
