Urn on square base (one of a pair)
Not on view
This pair of early Neo-Classical urns is likely to have been produced around 1770 and 1780. The later, possibly early 19th century base, is also made of Egyptian porphyry, but of a deeper purple color with white rather than pink speckles, which is akin the chocolaty porphyries quarried in Sweden. The calm austerity of these ‘Etruscan’ was much sought after in the second half of the eighteenth century.
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