SCULPTURE
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A GERMAN CARVED IVORY LIDDED TANKARD
细节
A GERMAN CARVED IVORY LIDDED TANKARD
Second half 19th Century
The lid surmounted by a figure of a putto carrying a basket of fruit, above a frieze carved with grotesque and putto masks, the main body carved in high relief with a Bacchanalian scene, with a foliate-carved bacchante caryatid handle, on a foliate-carved oval base
12¾in. (32.3cm.) high
Second half 19th Century
The lid surmounted by a figure of a putto carrying a basket of fruit, above a frieze carved with grotesque and putto masks, the main body carved in high relief with a Bacchanalian scene, with a foliate-carved bacchante caryatid handle, on a foliate-carved oval base
12¾in. (32.3cm.) high