A GILT-BRONZE FIGURATIVE RELIEF

17TH CENTURY, ITALIAN

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURATIVE RELIEF
17th Century, Italian
With a gilt-bronze figure draped in a lion's pelt and holding a cup, on a later rectangular bluejohn, lapis lazuli and marble mount
12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm.) high
20 in. (50.8 cm.) high overall

拍品專文

This pattern of tazza-bearing and pelt-draped figure of the wine-god Bacchus, symbolizing the Season of Autumn, features as a bas relief on Louis XIV furniture attributed to the celebrated ébeniste André-Charles Boulle (d. 1732) (see an armoire illustrated in T.A. Strange, French Interiors, Furniture, Decorations etc..., London, 1950, 3rd ed., p.149).