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Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux (2) image 1
Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux (2) image 2
Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux (2) image 3
Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux (2) image 4
Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux (2) image 5
Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux (2) image 6
Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux (2) image 7
Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux (2) image 8
A Farquhar Legacy
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Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux

Lady Glenconner, My Life in Objects & A Farquhar Legacy
19 November 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£1,000 - £1,500

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Of Grand Tour interest: two Italian 19th century Siena marble models of the Temples of Vespasian and Castor and Pollux

The two Roman Forum temple fragments with typical architectural detailing, including fluted columns surmounted by Corinthian capitals, on marble bases, the one inscribed ESTITVER: 16cm wide, 16cm deep, 45cm high (6in wide, 6in deep, 17 1/2in high), the other: 24cm wide, 10cm deep, 46cm high (9in wide, 3 1/2in deep, 18in high) (2)

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Perhaps some of the first mass produced tourist souvenirs of Rome, the earliest models of the Temple of Vespasian and Temple of Castor and Pollux situated in the Forum date to the early decades of the 19th century when, during the French occupation and later, archaeological excavations of the temples revealed much of their current form. The novelty of owning finely carved miniature representations of temple fragments from the celebrated sights of the poet Tibullus's 'Eternal City' and its great lost civilisation led to the production of a large number of these models in various sizes which were subsequently shipped all over Europe and America as the century progressed.

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