Tag: Grand tour

A pair of ‘Grand Tour’ Continental Belgium black marble and patinated bronze cups and covers. The twin handled ‘Scyphus’ cups cast with naturalistic trailing ivy leaves and berries, with similarly cast lids, above a stepped marble plinth base mounted with a classical relief frieze, leaf & berry mouldings and standing on paw feet to the front.
After the Pompeii silver cup from the mid 1st century AD, held in the Museum of Naples, believed to be associated with the god of wine, Bacchus.

Height 16” (40.5cm)

Width 7 7/8” (20cm)

Depth 5 7/8” (15cm)

Continental

Circa 1870

PIETRO CHIAPPARELLI (ITALIAN, FL. SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY)

Augustus of Prima Porta

A 19th century Italian bronze figure of Augustus Caesar. The figure is modelled after the Antique discovered in 1863 in Prima Porta, Rome. Signed to the plinth base ‘Po CHIAPPARELLI Fe ROMA’

Augustus was the adopted son of Julius Caesar. He became emperor in 27 BC. This statue represents the Emperor in armour, with a cupid on his right side sitting on a dolphin. On his breastplate is represented the historical scene of the restitution of an emblem lost by Crassus in 54 BC, at the Battle of Carrhae. This emblem was subsequently placed in the temple of Mars the Avenger in the Forum of Augustus.

Height 17 1/2” (44.5cm)

Width 9” (23cm)

Diameter at base 6” (15.2cm)

Italian

Circa 1870

A pair of late 19th century Continental Bronze figures of Roman Soldiers. Each well cast in battle action, one hand with swords raised in combat, the other holding a shield. Both standing on a turned sienna marble plinth. Original dark green/brown patination.

Circa 1890

French