Lot Essay
The tablet evoking lyric poetry with addorsed laurel-bearing sphinx perched on a reeded and sunflowered urn that displays a medallion of the lyre-bearing sun deity Apollo.
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CIRCA 1770
Details
A George III statuary marble chimneypiece tablet
Circa 1770
Carved in relief with an urn, with central medallion depicting a reclining figure of Apollo, the urn surmounted by female sphinx
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high, 18 in. (45.5 cm.) wide, 3 in. (7.5 cm.) deep
Circa 1770
Carved in relief with an urn, with central medallion depicting a reclining figure of Apollo, the urn surmounted by female sphinx
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high, 18 in. (45.5 cm.) wide, 3 in. (7.5 cm.) deep
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