52
Gustavian Gilt Bronze Mounted Rannas Porphyry Box, Sweden, circa 1800.
Gustavian Gilt Bronze Mounted Rannas Porphyry Box, Sweden, circa 1800. The circular spiral-faceted stepped top fitted with a gilt bronze berried finial and rim above the cylindrical body, ht. 6, diam. 6 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. H.M. Luther Antiques, New York, New York, 28 March 2009. Exhibitions The bottom retains label from a major exhibition of Swedish porphyry in Stockholm and Paris, reading Bukowskis Porfyrutsallning, Nr 164 Stockholm 15/12 1985 - 2/2 1986. It is also illustrated in Bukowskis Porfyr, An Exhibition Catalog, (Stockholm, 1985), p. 96. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
Gustavian Gilt Bronze Mounted Rannas Porphyry Box, Sweden, circa 1800. The circular spiral-faceted stepped top fitted with a gilt bronze berried finial and rim above the cylindrical body, ht. 6, diam. 6 in. Footnotes: Provenance The collection of Eric van Rooy. H.M. Luther Antiques, New York, New York, 28 March 2009. Exhibitions The bottom retains label from a major exhibition of Swedish porphyry in Stockholm and Paris, reading Bukowskis Porfyrutsallning, Nr 164 Stockholm 15/12 1985 - 2/2 1986. It is also illustrated in Bukowskis Porfyr, An Exhibition Catalog, (Stockholm, 1985), p. 96. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing