PROBABLY ENGLISH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

细节

A PAIR OF POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT TERRACOTTA MODELS
Probably English, early 18th Century
Each depicting a martial trophy with a central recumbent suit of armour against a backdrop of flags, shields, drums, laurel-wreaths, muskets and fasces, one shown leaning against a saddle, the other a drum, on a plinth base
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high; 12¾ in. (32. 5 cm.) wide; 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) deep (2)

来源

Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, London, W.1 (recorded in the Library in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939) and by descent to
The Marquess of Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, sold in these Rooms, 8 December 1994, lot 4.

展览

London, 25 Park Lane, W.1, Three French Reigns, February 21 - April 5 1933, no. 18, fig. 89 (Catalogue, p. 18 and fig. 89).

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

拍品专文

These trophies are almost certainly maquettes for architectural embellishments. They are closely related to those executed circa 1708-12 by Grinling Gibbons, under Sir John Vanbrugh's supervision, for the skyline of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Malborough's Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (see J. Lees-Milne, English Country Houses, Baroque, 1685-1715, London, 1970, p. 167).