Lot 136: LUIGI VALADIER (ROME 1726 - 1785) AND WORKSHOP | A: Design for the base of a soup tureen, with satyrs and a ram's head B: Recto: A soup tureen for the Borghese service; with calculations in pen and brown ink Verso:  Details of finials, Pan and a nymph with twin tailed extremites and a sketch with two cherubs and a cone; studies of hands

A: Pen and brown ink over black chalk
B: Pen and brown ink and black chalk (recto and verso)

A: 309 by 269 mm<br />B: 340 by 279 mm

A: Pen and brown ink over black chalk<br />B: Pen and brown ink and black chalk (<em>recto</em> and <em>verso</em>)

A: Hinged to mount at upper margin. A few brown stains, the edges of sheet are torn at right and lower margin. There are a few repaired holes and tears at the upper left margin. Pen and ink and chalk remain strong and vibrant. sold in dark wood frame. B: Hinged to mount at upper margin. There is a horizontal crease in the sheet where it was previously folded. Some surface dirt. Otherwise pen and ink and chalk strong. Sold in a green painted wooden frame.
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Rome, Villa Medici, L'oro di Valadier: un genio nella Roma del Settecento, 1997, (catalogue by Alvar González-Palacios), nos. 13 (B) and 15 (A)

A. Gonzàlez-Palacios, Il Gusto dei Principi, Milan 1993, p. 197, fig. 347 (A), fig 349 (B)

B:
With Artemis Group, David Carritt Limited, London, Valadier: Three Generations of Roman Goldsmiths: An Exhibition of Drawings and Works of Art, 1991, no. 51c, illustrated detail of verso on p. 2