CIRCA 1820, PROBABLY ITALIAN

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU FIGURES OF MUSICIANS
CIRCA 1820, PROBABLY ITALIAN
Each standing on a rectangular shaped stepped base centred by a trophy with gardening elements
9¾ in. (25 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

The 'bronze' garniture, conceived in the French early l9th Century fashion as appropriate companions for a mantelpiece clock, evoke the pastoral life and Summer Season. A festive gardener with rustic pipes, and garden maid with hurdy gurdy dance, on altar-pedestals, whose bas-relief tablets comprise vine-wreathed and corn-enriched trophies of farm implements.

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