Sale 7554
London
|
31 March 2008
Price realised
GBP 500
Estimate
A LIMBACH FIGURE OF A YOUTH EMBLEMATIC OF WINTER CIRCA 1780, INDISTINCT INSCRIPTION TO BASE Greium(?) Wearing a black hat, white shirt and pink breeches, standing barefoot before a flaming braizer and holding bellows in his left hand, on a green oval mound base (element lacking from his right hand, minor restoration to hat, nozzle of bellows lacking) 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) high
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