THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR (LOTS 85-88)
A SET OF FOUR POLYCHROME AND GILTWOOD EQUESTRIAN FIGURES

细节
A SET OF FOUR POLYCHROME AND GILTWOOD EQUESTRIAN FIGURES
LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY QUITO

With the Angel of Estrella and the three Magi mounted on horseback and dressed in elaborate flowing robes and turbans, together with a similar figure on horseback (all lacking attributes)-7in. (18cm.) the tallest, mounted on later polychrome wood bases

For related examples see G. Palmer, The Spirit of Transformation in Spanish Colonial, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 52-53, and G. Palmer, Sculpture in the Kingdom of Quito, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1987, p. 105. (4)