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16889 - Fine Continental Furniture, Sculpture & Works of Art, 25 Nov 2009
New Bond Street
***Collection & Shipment - All lots will be retained at Bonhams, New Bond Street until 5pm, Wednesday 25th November 2009. Sold lots not collected by then will be removed to Bonhams White City Warehouse at: 2 Relay Road, White City, London, W12 7SJ, Tel: +44 (0) 87 0811 3867, Hours of opening 9.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday. All lots removed on 25th November 2009 to Bonhams warehouse will be available for collection from 9.30am, Friday 27th November 2009. These lots will be subject to transfer and storage charges if they are not collected within the period outlined below. Lots may be released from Bonhams warehouse on production of the Collection Order obtained from cashier's office at Bonhams, Knightsbridge or New Bond Street and a form of photographic ID. If a third party is collecting on behalf of a client, the third party must produce a letter of authority from the buyer and photographic from of ID*** Handling & Storage Charges – For sold lots removed to Bonhams Warehouse there will be no storage charges for lots collected between Friday 27th November 2009 and close of business on Friday 11th December 2009. Transfer and storage charges will commence on Monday 14th December 2009 and will be applicable for each working day. The charges levied by Bonhams are as follows: Furniture, large paintings and large objects: Transfer per lot £35 plus VAT, daily storage per lot £3.60 plus VAT, Paintings and objects: Transfer per lot £20 plus VAT, daily storage per lot £1.90 plus VAT.*** Please see catalogue for further details
Lot No: 100
An important Italian 19th century patinated bronze and giant tropical Tridacna Gigas shell centre-piece
attributed to Lodovico Pogliaghi
the large clam shell supported by three kneeling tritons with coiled bifurcating tails, one blowing a conch shell, one holding a stick of coral, the other with one arm raised supporting the shell, the naturalistic cast base with waves, on a tri-form curved shaped stepped base, on an hexagonal stepped oak pedestal with fluted columns to the sides, 62cm wide, 59cm deep, 62cm high (24" wide, 23" deep, 24" high); the pedestal: 63cm wide, 53cm deep, 91cm high (25" wide, 21" deep, 36" high). (2)
Estimate: £20,000 - 30,000, €22,000 - 33,000
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Footnote:
Lodovico Pogliaghi was born in 1857 in Milan. He studied painting, sculpture and architecture at the Accademia di Brera under Pietro Magni, Giovanni Strazza and Giuseppe Bertini. Pogliaghi established long term relationships with some of the most important patrons in Northern Italy. Pogliaghi worked on the renovation of the Palazzo Turati in Milan in the 1880s but is probably best known for his 1904-08 depiction of the Virgin Mary's Sorrows and Joys on the monumental bronze doors of the Duomo in Milan.
The bronze support on this lot, used as a base for the giant clam shell is a mythological representation belonging to the sea world, particularly loved by Lodovico Pogliaghi.
One of his early oil paintings entitled "Naiad and Triton", dated 1879, displays his affinity for the triton subject. Pogliaghi's sculptural style can be compared with a table decoration representing Neptune from circa 1900 which depicts an identical figure as the shell blowing triton on our centre piece. Additionally, a centre table using the similar subject of the bronze triton was sold Christie's London, 19 March 2009, lot 83 (£205,250).
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