Live Auction 5047Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE MODELS OF GREYHOUNDS
Lot 276

A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE MODELS OF GREYHOUNDS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed1 February 2011

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GBP 4,375

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A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE MODELS OF GREYHOUNDS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each on a stepped rounded rectangular base
4¼ in. (11 cm.) high; 7¼ in. (18.5 cm.) wide (2)

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).