Live Auction 7464Un hôtel particulier du Faubourg Saint-Germain The Collection of The Marquis and Marquise de Ravenel
A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE MODELS OF RECUMBENT GREYHOUNDS
Lot 48

A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE MODELS OF RECUMBENT GREYHOUNDS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 November 2007

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GBP 5,250

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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE MODELS OF RECUMBENT GREYHOUNDS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
One inscribed to the underside 'CO', on later Mallett stepped giltwood plinths
5 in. (12.5 cm.) high; 7½ in. (19 cm.) wide (2)

Purchased from Mallett, London.

Specialist note

A pair of greyhounds of identical design is depicted as a garniture on top of a chimney-piece in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration of 1807 (plate X) which shows the interior of his Duchess Street house (D. Watkin, Regency Furniture and Interior Decoration, New York, 1971, p. 39).