THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS: A PAIR OF GEORGE IV WINE COOLERS

Lot 87
08.10.2020 10:00UTC +00:00
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$ 106 250
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 87 | THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS: A PAIR OF GEORGE IV WINE COOLERS
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
Each of amphora form raised on square plinths, with bifurcated handles cast with guilloché and berried laurel and flanked by swan heads at lower handle terminals, cast and chased with mythological scenes, one depicting Bacchus and Ariadne with dancing bacchantes and attendants, above satyr masks and vines, the other with Ceres in a serpent-drawn chariot with attendants bearing fruits of the harvest, above horned and bearded masks with wheat swags, each on a finely matted ground, the handles chased with laurel and paterae, fluted neck rising to an egg-and-dart rim, removable collars and liners, marked on sides and on collars and liners, and numbered, the base rims engraved 'No. 5 Published as the Act directs by Storr and Mortimer 13 New Bond Street, London"
123/4 in. (32.3 cm.) high
237.8 oz. (7,395.5 gr.)
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