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A GEORGE III BOXWOOD RELIEF OF INFANT FAUNS AND BACCHANTE
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A GEORGE III BOXWOOD RELIEF OF INFANT FAUNS AND BACCHANTE

CIRCA 1760, AFTER FRANCOIS DUQUESNOY

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A GEORGE III BOXWOOD RELIEF OF INFANT FAUNS AND BACCHANTE
CIRCA 1760, AFTER FRANCOIS DUQUESNOY
In an ebonised wood frame
11 in. (28 cm.) wide overall
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Lot Essay

This form of festive bas-relief, with a faun leading music-making bacchic youths and a sacrificial goat to the harvest feast of the wine-deity Bacchus, was popularised by the celebrated sculpture by Francois Duquesnoy (d.1643) in the Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome.

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