A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' TAPERSTICK-FIGURE MODELLED AS A PUTTO EMBLEMATIC OF AUTUMN scantily draped in pale-yellow, seated on a stump pointing with his right hand to a bunch of grapes held in his raised left hand, before a dark-brown branch applied with two flowers and foliage and surmounted by a foliate nozzle supported on the putto's head, the stump and chamfered base with concave and convex cusps painted with a flower-spray and scattered flowers (most of nozzle lacking, chips to foliate drip-pan, two petals of lower flower lacking and five leaves partially lacking, minute chips to edge of base), circa 1750 | Christie's

Lot 62

A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' TAPERSTICK-FIGURE MODELLED AS A PUTTO EMBLEMATIC OF AUTUMN scantily draped in pale-yellow, seated on a stump pointing with his right hand to a bunch of grapes held in his raised left hand, before a dark-brown branch applied with two flowers and foliage and surmounted by a foliate nozzle supported on the putto's head, the stump and chamfered base with concave and convex cusps painted with a flower-spray and scattered flowers (most of nozzle lacking, chips to foliate drip-pan, two petals of lower flower lacking and five leaves partially lacking, minute chips to edge of base), circa 1750

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A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' TAPERSTICK-FIGURE MODELLED AS A PUTTO EMBLEMATIC OF AUTUMN scantily draped in pale-yellow, seated on a stump pointing with his right hand to a bunch of grapes held in his raised left hand, before a dark-brown branch applied with two flowers and foliage and surmounted by a foliate nozzle supported on the putto's head, the stump and chamfered base with concave and convex cusps painted with a flower-spray and scattered flowers (most of nozzle lacking, chips to foliate drip-pan, two petals of lower flower lacking and five leaves partially lacking, minute chips to edge of base), circa 1750
10.5cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's, 5 October1971,lot 23

Exhibited

Flowers and Fables, no. 195

Lot Essay

A similar example together with another emblematic of Winter are in the City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent and illustrated by Elizabeth Adams, op. cit., p. 44, pl. 30

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