Created after a design by William Kent for Lord Burlington’s Chiswick House, this set of four 19th century limestone urns on pedestals (one of the four pictured right) is estimated to fetch £20,000-40,000 in Summers Place Auctions’ sale on March 28 in Billingshurst, West Sussex.
The vast 9ft (2.74m) high urns have resided on a private Sussex estate for the last 100 years.
Kent designed eight original Portland stone urns for the gardens of Burlington’s west London home. They were placed in an avenue running from the back of the house towards the exedra, in imitation of the Appian way in Rome, which was lined with funerary urns and monuments.