24 May 2012
12:00 BST
Chester
The Beedham Collection: Selected Oak Furniture & Works of Art 1450 - 1750
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The Beedham Collection: Selected Oak Furniture & Works of Art 1450 - 1750
Back to auction 20460
A rare pair of late 16th century oak and parcel-gilt caryatids, Flemish or Dutch, circa 1570 - 1600
Both with unusual traces of original gilding and polychrome decoration
Each of classical form, and modelled standing beneath an Ionic capital, one wearing a laced bodice, her left hand raised, the other bare-breasted, and cradling a reeded column in her left arm, the lower sections modelled as tapering pedestals, carved with angel masks and festoons of fruit and flowers, both mounted on later boards with frame mouldings, both 51cm high, (2)
Each of classical form, and modelled standing beneath an Ionic capital, one wearing a laced bodice, her left hand raised, the other bare-breasted, and cradling a reeded column in her left arm, the lower sections modelled as tapering pedestals, carved with angel masks and festoons of fruit and flowers, both mounted on later boards with frame mouldings, both 51cm high, (2)
Sold for
£1,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- The caryatid carrying the column is similar to the central figure in the Flemish Mannerist upper entablature of the carved hall screen at the Middle Temple, circa 1570, which is reproduced A. Wells-Cole, Art & Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1997), p. 171.
Category: Furniture / Oak Furniture
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