Lot 10
10
A RALPH WOOD EQUESTRIAN FIGURE OF KING WILLIAM III in the guise of a Roman Emperor seated on a rearing dunn stallion with yellow bridle and green saddle-cloth, the King with a laurel wreath in his hair, his brown tunic enriched with gilding and with green drapery falling from his right shoulder, wearing blue breeches and a gilt sandal, the stallion with blue hooves with traces of gilding and supported at its breast by moss-encrusted rockwork, on a brown waisted rectangular plinth, the upper part moulded with a band of green berried laurel and the lower part with a green band (King's right foot lacking, damage to right hand, repaired through back legs and restuck to rockwork support, one ear lacking, slight chip to base), circa 1785

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A RALPH WOOD EQUESTRIAN FIGURE OF KING WILLIAM III in the guise of a Roman Emperor seated on a rearing dunn stallion with yellow bridle and green saddle-cloth, the King with a laurel wreath in his hair, his brown tunic enriched with gilding and with green drapery falling from his right shoulder, wearing blue breeches and a gilt sandal, the stallion with blue hooves with traces of gilding and supported at its breast by moss-encrusted rockwork, on a brown waisted rectangular plinth, the upper part moulded with a band of green berried laurel and the lower part with a green band (King's right foot lacking, damage to right hand, repaired through back legs and restuck to rockwork support, one ear lacking, slight chip to base), circa 1785
40cm. high

Lot Essay

This equestrian figure is sometimes referred to as The Duke of Cumberland although Mackintosh argues convincingly for King William III, see Sir Harold Mackintosh, Bt., op. cit., pp. 81 - 82. Cf. Sir Harold Mackintosh, Bt., ibid., no. 82; Captain R.K. Price, op. cit., col. frontispiece; Leslie B. Grigsby, op. cit., p. 424, no. 263 and the example from the collection of the late A.C.J. Wall Esq., sold in these Rooms on 18 October 1976, lot 116

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