A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV MARBLE SPHINXES

Лот 53
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 88 200
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Лот 53 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV MARBLE SPHINXES
Оценочная стоимость
£ 70 000 – 100 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV MARBLE SPHINXES

CIRCA 1700

Each wearing a diadem in their long, curling hair, their backs each draped with a cloth decorated with scrolling acanthus rinceaux; on integrally carved canted rectangular plinths

32 1/2 in. (82.5 cm.) high; 40 in. (101.5 cm.) long; 17 1/2 in. (44 cm.) wide, each





Provenance

Henry W. Poor, Poor House, Tuxedo Park, New York (by repute, a gift from Stanford White circa 1900).





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:

S. Pincas, Versailles - The History of the Gardens and their Sculpture, London, 1995, pp. 102-103.

W. Craven, Stanford White: Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities, New York, 2005, p. 181, 'From the Poor House to the White House'.



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