A Pair of Napoleon III Period Gilt-Bronze Figural Groups
£26,000
An Exceptional Pair of Restoration Period Gilt-Bronze Figural Groups, Allegorical of Hunting and Fishing. Each group is set on a naturalistically modelled...
Dimensions
Height: 35 cm (14 in)Width: 35 cm (14 in)
Depth: 26 cm (11 in)
Description
An Exceptional Pair of Restoration Period Gilt-Bronze Figural Groups, Allegorical of Hunting and Fishing.
Each group is set on a naturalistically modelled base and finely modelled and chiselled with superb matte and burnished gilding. The first group represents Hunting, with two running figures, one holding a spear and another blowing a horn; the second represents Fishing, with one figure casting a net and the other kneeling down to hold a fish. The groups are raised on finely cast re-entrant plinth bases cast with strap-work cartouches and chimerical heads.
French, Circa 1830.
Date
Circa 1860
Origin
France
Medium
Gilt-Bronze