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A 19th century monumental white marble urn with handles and frieze of mistletoe boughs and birds, cm 100 h. x 80 diam ca image 1
A 19th century monumental white marble urn with handles and frieze of mistletoe boughs and birds, cm 100 h. x 80 diam ca image 2
Lot 10TP

A monumental mid 19th century Italian carved white marble pedestal urn

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25 October 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £22,500 inc. premium

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A monumental mid 19th century Italian carved white marble pedestal urn

of shouldered campana form with entwined scrolling rustic branch handles, the body carved with a deep frieze of ribbon tied fruiting laurel branches and two pairs of love birds below a lattice keyfret border set between further acanthus and rope twist bands, on fluted and stiff leaf socle and and a Vitruvian scroll carved shallow canted square base, 109.5cm high, the whole raised on a later stepped and moulded black and veined marble square plinth, 165.5cm high overall (2)

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