Lot 146: LUIGI VALADIER (ROME 1726 - 1785) AND WORKSHOP | A rectangular toilet tray, with alternative beaded and laurel leaf borders, festoons and flowerheads

Pen and brown ink and light brown and grey wash over black chalk within double pen and brown ink framing lines, mounted on album page

240 by 350 mm

Pen and brown ink and light brown and grey wash over black chalk within double pen and brown ink framing lines, mounted on album page

Laid down. Overall in good condition. Few light brown stains around the edges of the sheet. Otherwise medium is fresh. Sold framed. Two separate sheets laid down onto one larger sheet. Overall both in good condition. Some light brown staining on both, barely visible. Medium remains strong. Sold unframed.
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With Artemis Group, David Carritt Limited, London, Valadier: Three Generations of Roman Goldsmiths: An Exhibition of Drawings and Works of Art, 1991, no. 55 (rectangular toilet tray) and p. 172, album nos. 40a (chocolate beaker) and 40b (toilet box)