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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL BRONZE PORTRAIT RELIEFS OF GRECIAN WARRIORS
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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL BRONZE PORTRAIT RELIEFS OF GRECIAN WARRIORS

EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CONTINENTAL BRONZE PORTRAIT RELIEFS OF GRECIAN WARRIORS
Early 20th Century
Mounted in oval ormolu frames cast with egg-and-dart ornament, on brocatelle violette d'Espagne marble panels
23¼in. (82cm.) high, 22½in. (57cm.) wide (2)
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Lot Essay

The marble plaques, with their ormolu borders enriched with sunflowered patterae, display bronze bas relief medallions of ancient heroes. Related 19th century bronze medallions of ancient deities featured on a boulle armoire purchased by the 4th Marquess of Hertford at the Albert sale, 28-30 January, 1861, (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, London, 1996, vol. 11, no. 171)

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