CIRCA 1760

Details

A George III statuary marble chimneypiece tablet
Circa 1760
The seated muse Urania gazing at a celestial globe, two attendent figures with globe and telescope
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) high, 18¾ in. (47.6 cm.) wide, 2¼ in. (5.6 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The tablet of the Muse Urania attended by genii with a celestial globe, evokes Mt. Helicon as the abode of Apollo and the Liberal Arts.
In 1754 a bas-relief tablet of this pattern was incorporated in a chimneypiece set up in the Saloon at Holkham, Norfolk by the Mayfair sculptor Thomas Carter (d.1756) (J.Cornforth, Augustan Vision Restored, Country Life, 4 August 1988, pp.90-92, fig. 3).
See lot 136 for a comparable tablet incorporated in a chimneypiece design.

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