A sculpted rouge marble planter after a Roman marble basin and tripod, 20th century, the basin with everted rim above a waisted band with three lion's masks carved in relief, with fluted underside, held on three rectangular section fluted and foliate cast legs with paw feet, around a central spiral carved baluster supporting column, the waisted triform socle on a circular base,118cm high, 104cm diameter The Roman original which this example faithfully reproduces is currently held at the Capitoline Museum in Rome, and was one of the antiquities in that collection for which Giovanni Battista Piranesi created an etching Cf Luigi Ficacci, Piranesi, the Complete Etchings, Taschen, 2001, p 650, fig. 830
A sculpted rouge marble planter after a Roman marble basin and tripod, 20th century, the basin with everted rim above a waisted band with three lion's masks carved in relief, with fluted underside, held on three rectangular section fluted and foliate cast legs with paw feet, around a central spiral carved baluster supporting column, the waisted triform socle on a circular base,118cm high, 104cm diameter The Roman original which this example faithfully reproduces is currently held at the Capitoline Museum in Rome, and was one of the antiquities in that collection for which Giovanni Battista Piranesi created an etching Cf Luigi Ficacci, Piranesi, the Complete Etchings, Taschen, 2001, p 650, fig. 830
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