CIRCA 1780

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A George III statuary marble chimneypiece tablet
Circa 1780
Celebrating the harvest and wine-deity Bacchus, with festive youths driving a goat to the Feast of Bacchus and drinking from a wine-jar
9½ in. (24 cm.) high, 21¼ in. (54 cm.) wide, 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The composition relates to the celebrated Galleria Doria Pamphili marble relief by Francois Duquesnoy (d.1643). A terracotta version of the latter was incorporated in a chimneypiece at Spencer House, London in the 1760s (J.Friedman Spencer House, London, 1993, figs 181 and 145). Such bacchinales were supplied by the Hyde Park sculptor Henry Cheere (d.1781), for whom they may have been modelled by William Collins (d.1793) (J.Physick Designs for English Sculpture, London, 1969, p.128)

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