Attributed to Benedetto Boschetti's workshop
Roman Grand Tour Carved Marble Tazza
ITALY, CIRCA 1820-40, after the antique
30.5 x 22 x 22 cm
12 x 8 ¾ x 8 ¾ in
12 x 8 ¾ x 8 ¾ in
6090
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A Grand Tour souvenir. Sculpted decoration in antique black marble (marmo nero antico) and antique red marble (marmo rosso antico). A shallow square dish with handles, supported on a fluted...
A Grand Tour souvenir. Sculpted decoration in antique black marble (marmo nero antico) and antique red marble (marmo rosso antico). A shallow square dish with handles, supported on a fluted spreading stem above a square base. Mounted on a pedestal.
The workshop of Benedetto Boschetti (1820-1870) was renowned for the exceptional quality of its marble work ‘after the antique’. From his premises at 74 via Condotti in Rome, Boschetti supplied extremely high quality works of art to satisfy the demand for high quality works of art with an antique theme created by an influx of tourists on the Grand Tour with academic and sophisticated tastes. His work was widely praised and he was awarded a medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. The most celebrated examples of his work today are a mosaic table depicting the Triumph of Cupid in the Gilbert Collection, London, and a fine reduction of the Warwick Vase in rosso antico now in the Toledo Museum, Ohio.
Nicholas Penny (Author of ‘Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900’; and Director of the National Gallery, London, between 2008 to 2015) comments that there is a version of this tazza which is approximately four times the size in the State Hermitage Museum.
The workshop of Benedetto Boschetti (1820-1870) was renowned for the exceptional quality of its marble work ‘after the antique’. From his premises at 74 via Condotti in Rome, Boschetti supplied extremely high quality works of art to satisfy the demand for high quality works of art with an antique theme created by an influx of tourists on the Grand Tour with academic and sophisticated tastes. His work was widely praised and he was awarded a medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. The most celebrated examples of his work today are a mosaic table depicting the Triumph of Cupid in the Gilbert Collection, London, and a fine reduction of the Warwick Vase in rosso antico now in the Toledo Museum, Ohio.
Nicholas Penny (Author of ‘Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900’; and Director of the National Gallery, London, between 2008 to 2015) comments that there is a version of this tazza which is approximately four times the size in the State Hermitage Museum.