Shrubland Park, Suffolk, England - Country House Sale

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Lot 105
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A Swedish porphyry campana vase circa 1800

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description

  • 66cm. high, 50cm. wide; 2ft. 2in., 1ft. 7½in.
with an everted rim, on a waisted socle and square base

Provenance

Probably acquired by Sir William Fowle Middleton, 2nd Bt., for Shrubland Park, Suffolk circa 1830
Thence by descent

Literature

Possibly one of the `Four Egyptian shape massive stone urns on pedestals laid on building-21inches high'  recorded in the Inventory, Shrubland Park, 1860 (Vols. 1 & 2), p.8.
Sotheby's Inventory, Shrubland Park, 1958, p. 105, The Entrance Hall, where this is described as: ` An Italian dark brown and white speckled  porphyry vase, of campana shape, on a square base, 26in 80.0.0' 

Catalogue Note

For further information see footnote to previous lot.