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A superb relief cast plaque of opposing winged griffins,
£975A superb relief cast plaque of opposing winged griffins,
the pair of mythical beasts, modelled in profile, opposed, each with a fore-paw raised on the pedestal of a classical lidded urn, the raised border of the tablet ornamented with lambrequin mouldings,£975 -
An English relief cast Greek Ionic Order capital,
£595An English relief cast Greek Ionic Order capital,
the capital with flat fronted volutes and stop-fluted and stiff-leaf ornament to the stem,£595 -
An English relief-cast roundel,
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An English relief-cast frieze,
£195An English relief-cast frieze,
the relief cast with hippocampi and cavorting bacchanalian putti,£195 -
An English relief-cast panel of Nine Emperors,
£48An English relief-cast panel of Nine Emperors,
the nine portrait miniatures raised on raised ovals, each cast with a portrait profile of a Roman Emperor,£48 -
An English relief cast plaster portrait plaque of George Washington,
£115An English relief cast plaster portrait plaque of George Washington,
the bas-relief head in profile on an oval plaque,£115 -
An English relief cast portrait roundel of a lady,
£280An English relief cast portrait roundel of a lady,
the lady with hair tied-up, depicted in profile,£280 -
A set of six English pine columns,
£6,500A set of six English pine columns,
each column, turned from the solid with entasis and bearing original paintwork, four as pictured make a colonnade, a further two of less good condition continue the colonnade (not pictured)£6,500 -
A good six panel oak door
£440A good six panel oak door
the front butt and bead flush panelled, the reverse with recessed panels,£440 -
A quantity of Staffordshire Blue triangular coping bricks
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‘Supper of Trimalchio’ or the visit of Dionysos and his companions to the house of a mortal.
£1,275‘Supper of Trimalchio’ or the visit of Dionysos and his companions to the house of a mortal.
The original marble relief from which this cast is taken is dated by the British Museum as early 1st Century Roman and is a copy of an earlier 2nd Century BC Hellenistic Greek original. Rediscovered in the early 16th Century it was first housed in the Casa Maffei before moving to the Villa Montalto, the palace of Pope Sixtus V, the great re-builder of Renaissance Rome. It was purchased and brought to England by Charles Townley in the late 18th Century where Townley had it mounted above the fireplace of his library at No. 7 Park Street, Westminster, while his agents sought out a buyer. Townley was to describe it as the ‘Supper of Trimalchio’. It was eventually purchased by the British Museum in 1805 as part of what became known as the Townley Marbles. Dominico Brucciani – formatore to the South Kensington Museum is thought to have been responsible for taking a cast of the plaque in the late 19th Century. LASSCO salvaged a Brucciani cast from a City of London building and from this we have made the present casting. A Brucciani casting can also be seen in the Ashmolean Museum cast collection in Oxford. The scene depicts Bacchus and his retinue of Satyrs attending upon a mortal figure, possibly a poet, formerly identified as Ikarios (see Apollodorus, III.xiv.7). In the upper division appear a large temple of Bacchus and various other mystical representations. The plaque is particularly noteworthy in being a rare depiction of Classical domestic architecture.£1,275 -
A George II sandstone door canopy,
£4,250A George II sandstone door canopy,
the rectangular roof slab with a lead covering to the top and carved mouldings to the soffit, the spirally moulded corbel bracket supports with stiff-leaf ornament flanking a plain lintel,£4,250