Lot 223
223
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE AND GRANITE MOSAIC after the Antique, depicting a charioteer drawn by a pair of griffins and flanked by a cymbal-playing Maenead and a trumpeting satyr, within a scrolling foliate border, now mounted upon a plaster ground, late 18th Century

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE AND GRANITE MOSAIC after the Antique, depicting a charioteer drawn by a pair of griffins and flanked by a cymbal-playing Maenead and a trumpeting satyr, within a scrolling foliate border, now mounted upon a plaster ground, late 18th Century
71¼ x 52½in. (181 x 133.5cm.)

Lot Essay

The image of cupid in a griffin-drawn chariot became popular in the late 18th Century and featured for instance on a bedroom ceiling, illustrated in C. Percier and P. Fontaine, Receuil de Decorations Interieures, 1801

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