A GEORGE III STATUARY MARBLE BAS-RELIEF CHIMNEYPIECE TABLET
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A GEORGE III STATUARY MARBLE BAS-RELIEF CHIMNEYPIECE TABLET

CIRCA 1780

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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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Lot Essay

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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