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Lot 342 - Auction 86

A lot of 2 neoclassical transparent glass impressions. Discobolos - Pietà from a canovian relief. 19th century23 x 26 x 4 mm 11 x 15 x 1 ... Read more
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A lot of 2 neoclassical transparent glass impressions. Discobolos - Pietà from a canovian relief.

19th century

23 x 26 x 4 mm 11 x 15 x 1 mm

The seated female figure is inspired by a marble stele sculpted by Antonio Canova for the prince Guglielmo d'Orange Nassau (1806-1808) in Padova - Eremitani until 1896. The impression is taken from a carnelian intaglio engraved by Pichler. Wear marks. / Discobolus. The cast is drawn from a carnelian intaglio, British Museum, coll. Cracherode (1799), mentioned in the Paoletti repertoire as "Un giuocatore al Disco". The specimen, finely detailed, has been polished (the engraved figure) and mounted in a ring at that time; afterwards it was unmounted. Light wear marks.

Parallels: L.P. P. Stefanelli, La collezione Paoletti, vol. 2, p. 60 n. 388; p. 156 n. 564; Cades 43, IV F, 34.

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