Sale 1359
New York
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8 April 2004
Price realised
USD 8,962
Estimate
A REGENCY POLYCHROME PAINTED TOLE PANEL CIRCA 1810, LATER MOUNTED AS A LOW TABLE With pierced gallery, the top with oval medallion depicting Angelika Kauffman's Venus presenting Helen to Paris, the floral decorated border around a gilt-decorated ground on rosette capped fluted square tapered legs with spade feet 20¼in. (51.5cm.) high, 32¾in. (83cm.) wide, 24¾in. (63cm.) deep
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This composition is after Angelica Kauffman's Venus presenting Helen to Paris engraved and published 1 January 1781 by William Wynne Ryland as a pair to The Flight of Paris and Helen.
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