Butchoff Antiques
est 1964
19th-century and 18th-century English and Continental furniture, mirrors, objects d'art, clocks
154 Kensington Church Street
London
W8 4BN
England
Opening Hours
Open Monday-Friday 9.30am -6.00pm; Saturday 10.00am - 5.00pm
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Item Stock Code
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7664
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Item Medium Description
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Marble, Marmoro Rosso
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Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details
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Bendetto Boschetti
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European
Dimensions
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52.00 cm high
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UK/USA
Converted Dimensions
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20.47 inches high
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Item Diameter
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82.00cm
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Converted Diameter
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32.28 inches
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Item Provenance & History
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Benedetto Boschetti (fl 1820-1860) had his gallery at 74 Via dei Condotti, Rome, hard by the Piazza di Spagna, selling carved works, after the antique, as well as micromosaics and bronzes. This street had been extant since Roman times (the ‘condotti’ were the conduits taking water from the Tiber to the Baths of Agrippa). He exhibited two ‘mosaic tables’ at the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Crystal Palace. The current tenant of 74 Via dei Condotti is Ferregamo, the fashion house.
The Marmoro Rosso Antico was quarried since antique times, from Matapan, situated in the Peloponesse, south west Greece. The wine colour of the marble encouraged Greek & Roman sculptors to utilise it in statues of Dionysius/Bacchus, the god of wine.
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Item Description / Dealer Expertise
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Carved in Marmoro Rosso Antico, in two pieces, fitted with a bronze stud, and socket, to allow rotation and thus a 360 degree display, and, signed on the plinth by the maker, Benedetto Boschetti.
The tazza rises from a square base, with a swept, spreading fluted and channelled socle, having an everted collar, with a running pearl ring over: the underside of the rotating upper bowl conformingly lobed and fluted, with two finely delineated heads of Medusa, with two wrythen handles dressed with foliates, having an ‘egg & dart’ moulded rim, and a dished interior.
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Status
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FOR SALE
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