拍品 136
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'PRIMAVERA', A RICHARD GARBE CARVED MAHOGANY FIGURAL GROUP
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'PRIMAVERA', A RICHARD GARBE CARVED MAHOGANY FIGURAL GROUP

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'PRIMAVERA', A RICHARD GARBE CARVED MAHOGANY FIGURAL GROUP
carved 'TEMPVS E DAX RERVM -- O QVAM FVGACES FORMA ET IVVENTVS MORTAL - IVM NATVRA RERVM CRVDEL- ISSIM DELT. ET SCVLP RICHARD GARBE 1921' (two cracks and minor nicks) 190.5 cm. high
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The inscription translates as:
Time [is] the consumer of things -- Oh how fleeting are beauty and youth -- The nature of mortal things [is] very cruel

A comparable ivory example is in Paul Williamson ed., European Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1996, p.179 and the Tate Gallery London hold a similar example of Autumn also in ivory.