'THE COWPER MONUMENT', A MASSIVE STONE COVERED URN

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'THE COWPER MONUMENT', A MASSIVE STONE COVERED URN
ENGLISH, MID 18TH CENTURY

Tapering as a swirling flame above a globe, the upper half carved with swags of laurel leaves, the lower half with a beaded roundel enclosing the inscription of a poem by William Cowper, on acanthus carved foot, the square stone pedestal beneath a platform and with molded square base (weathered, the pedestal in blocks) ----- the whole 126in. (320cm.) high

来源

With Crowther of Syon Lodge, London

拍品专文

Cf. J. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament: 300 Years of creativity: Artists, manufacturers & materials, Suffolk, England, 1991, p. 119, pl. 2:62, 2:63 for comparable vases and pedestals (one missing flame finial) which were made in the 1730's for the gardens of Chiswick House. The twenty-seven remaining at Chiswick and similar ones for other contemporary gardens are probably from designs by Lord Burlington, who was both patron and architect.