CIRCA 1815

Details

A Regency statuary marble chimneypiece frieze
Circa 1815
Carved in relief with Bacchus and Ariadne seated beneath a trailling vine, flanked by attendant cavorting amorini
13¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high; 56 in. (142.2 cm.) wide, 3 in. (7.6 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The tablet's central figures of Bacchus and Ariadne derive from an antique sarcophagus illustrated in A.L.Millin's Galerie Mytholoogique; Recueil de Monuments, Paris, 1811 and H. Moses A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, 1814 (pl.140).

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