Details
A STONEWARE PART FRIEZE, modelled in high relief with the figure of Apollo holding a lyre to his left side, his head crowned with a laurel wreath and wearing classical costume (damages and losses)
34½in. (87.7cm.) wide; 62in. (157.5cm.) high; 9in. (22.8cm.) deep
34½in. (87.7cm.) wide; 62in. (157.5cm.) high; 9in. (22.8cm.) deep
Provenance
The Lord Howard of Henderskelfe, Castle Howard, Yorkshire.
Apollo, as leader of the Muses of Artistic inspiration, formed a central figure in the bas-relief frieze that decorated the façade of the Royal Opera House in Haymarket, London, which was designed in 1816 by John Nash (d. 1835), architect to George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, and his assistant George Repton (d. 1858). The grand façade frieze recalling 'The Origin and Progress of Music' was designed by the sculptor John Flaxman (d. 1826), and executed by the sculptor James George Bubb (d. 1853) in an artifical stone, known as 'lithargolite'. The figure of the lyre-bearing Apollo standing beside an altar-pedestal was taken down in the early 1890s, and was displayed at the Tate Gallery, Millbank from 1897 (see D. S. McColl, Somerset Houe Gazeete, 1924) until purchased for Castle Howard, Yorkshire in 1964 (see Sotheby's House Sale, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, lots 179-185).
Apollo, as leader of the Muses of Artistic inspiration, formed a central figure in the bas-relief frieze that decorated the façade of the Royal Opera House in Haymarket, London, which was designed in 1816 by John Nash (d. 1835), architect to George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, and his assistant George Repton (d. 1858). The grand façade frieze recalling 'The Origin and Progress of Music' was designed by the sculptor John Flaxman (d. 1826), and executed by the sculptor James George Bubb (d. 1853) in an artifical stone, known as 'lithargolite'. The figure of the lyre-bearing Apollo standing beside an altar-pedestal was taken down in the early 1890s, and was displayed at the Tate Gallery, Millbank from 1897 (see D. S. McColl, Somerset Houe Gazeete, 1924) until purchased for Castle Howard, Yorkshire in 1964 (see Sotheby's House Sale, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, lots 179-185).