A seven-piece garniture de cheminée after the antique
Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731 - 1785)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1794
Materials
Bronze and marble
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 871621
Summary
Bronze, a seven-piece garniture de cheminée cast in Rome at the foundry of Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli, 1793, consisting of a central equestrian figure of Marcus Aurelius (signed 'G. Zoffoli F. Rome 1793'), two seated figures of Agrippina and Menander, the Capitoline Flora and the Farnese Flora, and the Borghese and Medici Vases. The bronzes are reductions of celebrated antique sculptures.
Provenance
Probably bought by Lord Boringdon in Rome 1793 and thence by descent until accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957.
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by H. M. Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Giacomo Zoffoli (c.1731 - 1785)
Exhibition history
Souvenirs of the Grand Tour, Wildenstein & Co., London, 1982, no.54