Description

Fine pair of late C18th Italian �Grand Tour� souvenir carved marble cameo bas-relief profile portraits of Roman Emperors.
Carved white marble profile studies of the Roman Emperors Vespasian and Sergio Galba , mounted on original black marble or slate ovals . Superb detailed carving to each, both wearing laurel leaf wreath coronas and facing to dexter , with scripted titles to the edges �Vespasian� and �Sergio Galba� .
Mounted in possibly later , canted-corner bespoke wooden frames decorated with a simulated faux porphyry painted surface . The verso each with old collection or exhibition paper labels with ink details.
In excellent original as found , �countryhouse� condition with an untouched dry surface to both the studies and the framing . The carved marble profile of Galba with with an historic lateral crack , but crucially stable and uncompromised.
Emperor Tito Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian Dynasty and ruled the Roman Empire from AD 69�79.
Sergio Galba was the head of an ancient noble family during the mid first century AD . Legend has it that the noble Galba family were descendants of the god Jupiter.
* an identical pair of carved marble reliefs mounted on slate panels, in different style frames ,were sold Christie�s London 19/07/2012 Sale No .4062 , property of an Italian aristocratic Lombard family �3500.
H 8�
W 6.5�
D 2�
Italy c.1780
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Internal Ref: ML 226