A late Gustavian circa 1800 porphyry and ormolu Vase by Court bronze chaser and gilder F.L. Rung (1758-1837) not signed.
Height 70, width incl. handles 40 cm. On a Gustavian column with gilded cannelures. Column height 101 cm. A later column used during the second part of the 20th century also included in the lot, white painted base, height 99 cm.
Bronze mounts on the round leave-wreath at the bottom: two rods with paired leaves later, one rod with paired leaves is missing.
Saleroom notice
Bronze mounts on the round leave-wreath at the bottom: two rods with paired leaves later, one rod with paired leaves is missing.
Provenance
Säbylund, Närke.
Belonged to Hans Henrik von Essen (1755–1824).
Literature
Svenska slott och herresäten i Sverige vid 1900-talets början, 1910, Närke, Säbylund, text av Eugène Lewenhaupt, the lot pictured page 29, with the Gustavian column.
Slott och herresäten i Sverige, Närke, Säbylund, Allhems förlag 1969, the lot pictured page 217, with the later column.
Sundblom, Hans, Porfyr, En utställning kring föremål från Älvdalens Gamla Porfyrverk, Bukowskis 1985/86, jämför snarlik urna utan lock på gustaviansk kolonn på Stockholm slott, avbildad sid, 52, katalognummer 4, sid 63.
Solders, Severin, Gamla Porfyrverket, Älvdalens sockens historia, 1939, pl. 22, avbildar Rungs modeller för porfyrvaser 1799 till Wertmüller, däribland vas no 1 "En dylikt garnerad Porphyr Vase med Bronze, varen circa 27 tum hög och alt i proportion, kosta circa 150 Riksdaler". Längs med vasen står "28 tum Svenska Hög".
More information
The lot is largely similar to two vases at Stockholm Palace (HGK GV: st 9-10). The vases are well in line with the model no 1in Rung's letter to A. U. Wertmüller in 1799, where the vase is intended to be 28 inches and in this shape and bronze decor. 20 inches is about 70 cm, which corresponds to the height of the lot. The vases could be given lids too according to Rung.