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A PAIR OF PLASTER FEMALE FIGURES HOLDING CORNUCOPIAE

FRENCH, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF PLASTER FEMALE FIGURES HOLDING CORNUCOPIAE
FRENCH, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each wearing drapery and on laurel garland-draped columnar pedestal bases, inscribed in red paint 61.335 and 62.30, etc. and with both graphite and incised letters A and C, the bases with indistinct customs stamps
66 in. (168 cm.) high, the figures only; 34 in. (86 cm.) high and 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) diameter, the bases only (6)

Provenance

With Arnold Seligmann, Paris.
Mr. and Mrs. Salmon Portland Halle, Shaker Heights, 1932.
Gift of Carrie Moss Halle, Shaker Heights, 1961.

Literature

The Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin, 'The Year in Review,' LII (November 1965), pp. 137 and 153, no. 40.
D. C. Ditner, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, PhD. dissertation (Case Western Reserve University), 1985, pp. 284-289, fig. 36a.

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Lot Essay

As indicated in the files of the Cleveland Museum of Art, these two figures might have been part of a larger set -- and, judging from their incised letters A and C -- might have been originally part of a set of four. The Cleveland files also note that an identical pair owned by Straus was purchased from Seligmann in 1931 - the year before the Halles acquired the present Cleveland pair -- and may have been part of this set of four.

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