A Nyon white funerary monument

CIRCA 1783

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A Nyon white funerary monument
Circa 1783
Of rectangular convex form, modelled with a bare-breasted woman holding her child emerging from within a split tomb, the tomb modelled in relief with two oval shields each with a coat-of-arms, surmounted by a coronet and supported by a large rococo scroll-moulded cartouche with a skull and crossed bones at the base (child's right arm lacking, chipping to edges), in a wood glass-fronted case
18 in. (46.5 cm.) x 11 in. (28 cm.)

Provenance

Chteau Ferney-Voltaire

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The provenance for this lot is the Chteau Ferney-Voltaire.

Lot Essay

This is a reduced reproduction of the monument made in 1751 by Johan-Auguste Nahl (1710-1785) in the church at Hindlebank near Berne (now destroyed). The monument was commissioned by Pastor Langhans in memory of his wife.

The original moulds for this piece, which appears to date from the early period of manufacture, are in the Nyon Museum. Other examples of this model are in the Landesmuseum, Zrich, and at Chatsworth, Derbyshire.

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