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    Sale 6052

    The John Reid Collection

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    17 - 18 December 1998

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    • A GILT-BRONZE FIGURATIVE RELIE
    Lot 200

    A GILT-BRONZE FIGURATIVE RELIEF

    17TH CENTURY, ITALIAN

    Price realised

    GBP 3,220

    Estimate

    GBP 1,000 - GBP 1,500

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    A GILT-BRONZE FIGURATIVE RELIEF
    17th Century, Italian
    With a gilt-bronze figure draped in a lion's pelt and holding a cup, on a later rectangular bluejohn, lapis lazuli and marble mount
    12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm.) high
    20 in. (50.8 cm.) high overall

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    Lot Essay

    This pattern of tazza-bearing and pelt-draped figure of the wine-god Bacchus, symbolizing the Season of Autumn, features as a bas relief on Louis XIV furniture attributed to the celebrated ébeniste André-Charles Boulle (d. 1732) (see an armoire illustrated in T.A. Strange, French Interiors, Furniture, Decorations etc..., London, 1950, 3rd ed., p.149).

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