Sale 4960
London, South Kensington
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12 September 2006
Price realised
GBP 3,840
Estimate
A GEORGE III STATUARY MARBLE BAS-RELIEF CHIMNEYPIECE TABLET CIRCA 1780 Celebrating the harvest and wine-deity Bacchus, with three festive youths 7 5/8in. (19.4cm.) high; 18 1/8in. (46cm.) wide; 1 7/8in. (4.7cm.) deep
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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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