A CHARLES II CARVED WALNUT RELIEF, with a central circular impression of a medieval seal mounted on a cartouche, surmounted by a splayed eagle and flanked by supporting putti with swags of fruiting foliage and ribbon-ties, within a later rectangular frame inscribed B. Cyber and with brass plaque CARVED BY CAIUS GABRIEL CIBBER B. BLENDBERG 1630. D. LONDON 1700 restorations and replacements

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A CHARLES II CARVED WALNUT RELIEF, with a central circular impression of a medieval seal mounted on a cartouche, surmounted by a splayed eagle and flanked by supporting putti with swags of fruiting foliage and ribbon-ties, within a later rectangular frame inscribed B. Cyber and with brass plaque CARVED BY CAIUS GABRIEL CIBBER B. BLENDBERG 1630. D. LONDON 1700 restorations and replacements
22in. x 36in. (56 x 91.5cm.)

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This tablet, designed in the Louis XIV 'antique' manner, celebrates the achievements of King Henry IV (d.1413), with his 'Great Seal', displayed on a laurel-wreathed shield, borne by a dove and cherubims.

Caius Gabriel Cibber (d.1700), who was appointed William III's 'sculptor in ordinary' had set up as a sculptor in London in 1667 and worked at St Paul's Cathedral in the 1670s. (See H. Faber, Caius Gabriel Cibber, His Life and Work, Oxford, 1926)

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