CIRCA 1780

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A George III statuary marble chimneypiece tablet
Circa 1780
Celebrating the harvest and wine-deity Bacchus, with Cupid in company with grape-bearing companions and a faun leading a goat to the Feast of Bacchus
9 in. (23 cm.) high, 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide, 2½ in. (6 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Such bacchinales were supplied by the Hyde Park sculptor Henry Cheere (d.1781), for whom they may have been modelled by William Collins (d.1793) (J.Physick Designs for English Sculpture, London, 1969, p.128). The same patterned tablet appears on a George III chimneypiece at Polesden Lacey, Surrey, where it is likely to have been introduced by Messrs White Allom & Co. in the early 20th century (C. Rowell Polesden Lacey, 1999, p.60).

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