Imperial Porphyry Specimens from the Grand Tour Set into a Marble Table Top

LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.

15 1/2 in. (14.75 kg, 39.3 cm).

Porphyry specimens set into a circular marble 'table top' with a black band border similar to items from the workshop of Francesco Sibilio.

Provenance

Acquired from Diana Steel in Suffolk around 2000.
From the private collection of a Somerset gentleman.

CONDITION

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LOT 0373