Live Auction 7855Christie's Interiors - Masters & Makers
A PAIR OF FRENCH MEDIEVAL STONE GARGOYLES
Lot 359

A PAIR OF FRENCH MEDIEVAL STONE GARGOYLES

PROBABLY 16TH CENTURY

Closed30 October 2012

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GBP 5,000

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A PAIR OF FRENCH MEDIEVAL STONE GARGOYLES
PROBABLY 16TH CENTURY
One in the form of an eagle with horns and the other as a lion-form beast both on integral stepped blocks with chanels in their backs to take water to their open mouths
45 in. (115 cm.) overall (2)

Specialist note

Removed from a French Chateau, the gargoyles had been placed on the entrance gates having been taken from an earlier decayed chateau near Toulouse