Vase
Luigi Valadier
(Italian, 1726−1785)
Dateca. 1775−80
MediumRosso Appennino marble and gilt silver
Dimensions8 3/4 × 5 7/8 × 3 7/8 in. (22.2 × 14.9 × 9.8 cm)
Credit LinePurchased by The Frick Collection, 2017
Accession number2017.6.01
CommentaryThis vase is small but of exquisite quality and made with an exotic and seldom used marble, rosso Appennino. It is the only known marble object by Valadier to have gilt-silver mounts. The acorn on the top suggests that the vase may have been commissioned by the Chigi family, whose coat of arms included oak branches.
On View
First Floor, Room 11, Library
French, Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century
ca. 1790
