Live Auction 7764Important Early European Furniture, Sculpture & Tapestries
Christie’s roundel
Lot 290

TWO RECTANGULAR CARVED ALABASTER RELIEFS PROBABLY DEPICTING CERES AND HELIOS

CASTILIAN PLATERESQUE, 16TH CENTURY

Closed5 November 2009

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TWO RECTANGULAR CARVED ALABASTER RELIEFS PROBABLY DEPICTING CERES AND HELIOS
CASTILIAN PLATERESQUE, 16TH CENTURY
Ceres depicted holding a basket of fruit in each hand, flanked by dragons and standing on the head of a putto; Helios depicted holding the reins of winged horses and standing on the head of a putto; weathering, minor damages
26 x 19 in. (67.5 x 48 cm.) each (2)

with Bacri Frères, Paris, 1928.
William Randolph Hearst.
Mrs. George Hearst.
Mrs. Madelyn Fiorita Jones (formerly Mrs. Cornelius Cole II), Los Angeles.
Loewi-Robertson, Inc., Los Angeles, 1971.

Specialist note

See note to previous lot.