14th Jul, 2021 10:00 EDT
The Gilded Age
153
A Large Italian Majolica Twin-Handled Urn on Conforming Pedestal
Probably Cantagalli, dated 1898
The baluster body with twin serpent-form handles, painted with a continuous scene of Diana with partially nude huntresses in diaphonous robes within a wooded landscape, titled 'Diana Cacciatrice' to neck and dated 1898, raised on conforming pedestal painted with cherubs in an oval reserve, on a pale yellow and blue ground.
H: 78 3/4 in. (total); H: 44 in. (urn)
Provenance
Collection of Robert & Barbara Safford, Vaux Hill, Audubon, Pennsylvania.
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, September 25, 2013, lot 127.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Private Collection, Long Island, New York.
Sold for $2,520
Estimated at $2,000 - $4,000
The baluster body with twin serpent-form handles, painted with a continuous scene of Diana with partially nude huntresses in diaphonous robes within a wooded landscape, titled 'Diana Cacciatrice' to neck and dated 1898, raised on conforming pedestal painted with cherubs in an oval reserve, on a pale yellow and blue ground.
Provenance
Collection of Robert & Barbara Safford, Vaux Hill, Audubon, Pennsylvania.
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, September 25, 2013, lot 127.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
Private Collection, Long Island, New York.
