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拍品 167 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
(LOTS 130-209)
(LOTS 130-209)
A FRENCH REGENCE GILTWOOD WALL BRACKET
CIRCA 1720
已結束2008年6月5日
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GBP 8,750
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Appropriate for a 'cartel' clock, this golden wall-bracket is richly sculpted in Louis Quatorze 'Roman' fashion to evoke the poets' Arcadian Golden Age as ruled by Cronus Saturn. A bas-relief peace-trophy tablet, uniting winged time's hour-glass and scythe, accompanies the agriculture deity, from whose shell-crowned head issue wave-scrolled trusses to support the lambrequined bracket bearing the satyr head of the fertility god Pan. The masks relate in particular to the engraved work of the 'Sculpteur du Roy' Bernard Toro (Tarot) (d. c. 1720), some of whose Oeuvres, were issued in London by F. Noble as 'Masks and Other Ornaments', 1745.