POSSIBLY BY ISAAC GOSSET, CIRCA 1760

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A CREAM WAX PORTRAIT RELIEF OF CHARLES TOWNSHEND
POSSIBLY BY ISAAC GOSSET, CIRCA 1760
Set on blue glass back-plate in oval turned wood frame, unsigned, damages
wax 3½in. (9cm.)
And a wax portrait relief of 'Old Mr. Poll', unsigned, in turned wood oval frame -- the wax - 2¾in. (7cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: E.J.Pyke, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF WAX MODELLERS, Oxford, 1973, p.82 records Gosset as executing a wax of Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1725-1767. This could be the same bust as the one in the National Portrait gallery, London, No.1756.

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