Carved coral Tripani adviser

Italy – or more specifically Sicily – came up trumps for Stamford auction house Batemans (20% buyer’s premium) in the form of this 4½in (11cm) carved coral and copper-gilt urn and cover.

It was cautiously catalogued as ‘possibly Italian’ but more probably a product of Tripani, Sicily.…

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