Lot Essay
Celebrating lyric or love poetry, the nymphs, seated on antique-fluted columns, recall the ode written by the poet Catallus to commemorate the death of a favourite sparrow.
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19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZES
19th Century
Each in the form of seated Ceres, one with a live bird and the other with a dying bird in one hand, on a fluted grey marble plith base, one inscribed 'A.L. I', the other indistinctly 'A.L.'
8 in. (20 cm.) wide (2)
19th Century
Each in the form of seated Ceres, one with a live bird and the other with a dying bird in one hand, on a fluted grey marble plith base, one inscribed 'A.L. I', the other indistinctly 'A.L.'
8 in. (20 cm.) wide (2)