Details
AN ITALIAN GILT-BRONZE LIFE-CAST GROUP OF A SNAKE AND A TOAD, the scaled entwined serpent trapping a struggling toad in its tail, previously mounted on a plinth, late 18th /early 19th Century
9½in. (24cm.) wide; 3½in. (9cm.) high
9½in. (24cm.) wide; 3½in. (9cm.) high
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the pre-1927 inventory and in the Small Drawing Room in 1939; appears on the bureau plat (lot 31) in a photograph of the large Drawing Room
Exhibited
London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns,, February 21-April 5, 1933, no. 111 (Catalogue, p. 22)