Live Auction 1113The Opulent Eye - 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE GROUP OF BACCHIC PUTTI
Lot 161 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATES OF DR. MILTON & MRS. MARILYN MYERS

A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE GROUP OF BACCHIC PUTTI

CAST BY RAINGO FRÈRES FROM THE MODEL BY ALBERT-ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed14 March 2013

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GBP 6,875

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A FRENCH GILT-BRONZE GROUP OF BACCHIC PUTTI
CAST BY RAINGO FRÈRES FROM THE MODEL BY ALBERT-ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Signed 'CARRIER-BELLEUSE' and stamped 'RAINGO 9280', on a vert maurin plinth with beaded ormolu frame
22½ in. (57 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 8¼ in. (21 cm.) deep

Christie's, London, 22 September 2011, lot 56 (£13,750).

Specialist note

Minton exhibited two parian groups of Children with Goat at the Great Exhibition of 1851. They are drawn from this full group and thought to be Carrier-Belleuse's earliest works for Minton, made shortly after his arrival in England. A terracotta of the full group is recorded in the collection of David Barclay, London. The present lot is cast in superior gilt-bronze by the premier Raingo Frères foundry.