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Presumably Giovanni Giardini

Forlí 1646 – 1722 Rome

Pair of torchéres. Circa 1710

Copper, embossed, cast; remains of the silver gilt. Each 120 cm (47 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Presumably Giovanni Giardini. Pair of torchéres. Circa 1710.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 12,000

USD 11,200

 

- 13,500

Sold for:

12,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 247-254

Orangerie Selected Objects, Thursday, 26.11.2015

Information

Copper, embossed, cast; remains of the silver gilt. Each 120 cm (47 ¼ in.). Owner's monogram on the lower body of each, 19th century engraving under a prince's hat: M v C.

Models / precursors: Maximilian Joseph Limpach (engraver) after Giovanni Giuliani: Disegni diversi inventati e delineati da Giovanni Giardini da Forlí, vol. 1 , Rome 1714

Related literature: Hugh Honour, Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, London 1971, p.115–121 / Antonella Capitanio: Giardini, Giovanni; in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani 54 (2000), p. 585ff. / Dankmar Trier, s.v. Giardini, Giovanni, in: AKL 53 (2007), p. 264f. / Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios: Giovanni Giardini. New works and new documents; in: Burlington Magazine 137 (1995), no. 1107, p. 367–376

Comparable object: Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 26. November 1979, lot 246.

Presumably Gustav Maximilian von Croÿ (1773–1844), Cardinal and Archbishop of Rouen / 1932 collection of the newspaper publisher Victor Hahn (1869–?), Berlin / private collection, Austria

Adolph Donath: Sammlung Victor Hahn, vol. II - Bildwerke in Holz, Bronze und Elfenbein, Berlin 1926, no. 126 (as German, 18th Century), p. 31, full-page ill. / Auction catalogue: Die Sammlung Victor Hahn (beschrieben von Otto von Falke), Hermann Ball und Paul Graupe, Berlin 1932, lot 132 (as South German, circa 1740), p. 48