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LATE 18TH CENTURY
Details
A TERRACOTTA GROUP OF VENUS AND CUPID
LATE 18TH CENTURY
With Venus on a rockwork ground and clutching a loose drapery to her chest and cupid seated at her feet with a quiver of arrows and bow on the ground and holding a dove and another dove in between his legs, on a later faux-marble painted grey and giltwood fluted plinth base, together with a later glass case with a wooden base, the underside to the base of terracotta inscribed '60' and stamped '39004', the underside to base of vitrine inscribed '5697'
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high, 11½ in. (29 cm.) high on base,
LATE 18TH CENTURY
With Venus on a rockwork ground and clutching a loose drapery to her chest and cupid seated at her feet with a quiver of arrows and bow on the ground and holding a dove and another dove in between his legs, on a later faux-marble painted grey and giltwood fluted plinth base, together with a later glass case with a wooden base, the underside to the base of terracotta inscribed '60' and stamped '39004', the underside to base of vitrine inscribed '5697'
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high, 11½ in. (29 cm.) high on base,
Provenance
François Flameng, Paris.
Engel-Gros Collection; sold Paris, 1921, lot 272.
George Blumenthal, New York.
David and Mary Warfield, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 December 1951, lot 165.
Engel-Gros Collection; sold Paris, 1921, lot 272.
George Blumenthal, New York.
David and Mary Warfield, New York; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 December 1951, lot 165.