拍品 190
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A MONUMENTAL BRONZE BIRD CAGE, of Palladian form, with a balustraded roof and Corinithian-columned portico centred by the Royal Arms of Queen Victoria, above a projecting base with five arched doors, within brick-work ornament

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A MONUMENTAL BRONZE BIRD CAGE, of Palladian form, with a balustraded roof and Corinithian-columned portico centred by the Royal Arms of Queen Victoria, above a projecting base with five arched doors, within brick-work ornament

96in. (244cm.) wide; 77in. (195.6cm.) high; 40in. (101.6cm.) deep

拍品專文

The architecture of the bird-cage with its hexastyle potico, recalling Andrea Palladio's Temple of Scisi, derives from the Lord Mayor's Mansion House, London, which in turn was inspired by Sir Richard Child's, Wanstead House, Essex, illustrated in Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715. (see S. Jeffery, The Mansion House, Chichester, 1993).