CIRCLE OF BENEDETTO BOSCHETTI (ACTIVE C.1830), A LARGE TAZZA IN SIENA MARBLE ROME, 19TH CENTURY The square dish with egg and dart rim, the corners with swans, the moulded frieze with Vitruvian scroll band, the dished, fluted centre with reeded circular boss, the conforming elongated spreading socle with square platform, on a stepped rectangular Nero Belgio plinth 46cm high, top 44cm by 45cmProvenance: Property from the Kingshott CollectionBenedetto Boschetti, 74 Via Condotti, Rome, active c.1820-1870, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Exhibition 1851. The Boschetti workshop was renowned for the exceptional quality of its copies, mostly in marble of Antique vases and objects, for example a rosso antico reduction of the Warwick vase in the Toledo Museum, Ohio (A. Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempo del Gusto, Roma e il Regno delle Duo Sicilie, Milan, 1984, Vol II, fig.286). F.S. Bonfigli noted in 1856 that 'The Establishment is particularly conspicuous for its great variety of marble works, bronzes, etc.' (A. Gonzalez-Palacios, The Art of Mosaics, 1982, p.166). A design for a related pedestal-supported tazze, in the 'Antique' manner features in V.B. Semynov Malachite, Sverdlovsk, 197, book 2, No. 59.

Main dish and base with remedial restoration to old breaks and damage