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Lot 113: MICHAEL RYSBRACK (1694-1770), ENGLISH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Est: £200,000 GBP - £300,000 GBP
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 08, 2011

Item Overview

Description

SOLD IN AID OF THE ASPINALL FOUNDATION
WODEN (WEDNESDAY)
Portland stone, on stone base
statue: 173.5cm., 68¼in base: 21.5 by 71 by 71cm., 8½ by 28 by 28in.

Artist or Maker

Literature

From George West's Stowe Gardens A Poem, published 1732

'And warlike Woden, fam'd for martial Deeds,
From whom great Brunswick's noble line proceeds.'

Seeley's Description of the Gardens at Stow, Northampton 1744, p.8
Susan Moore, 'Hail! Gods of Our Fore-fathers, Rysbrack's 'lost' Saxon Deities at Stowe', Country Life, 31 January 1985, illus.
J. Kenworthy-Browne, 'Rysbrack's Saxon Deities', Apollo, September 1985, p. 220-7, fig.5

Provenance

Commissioned by Sir Richard Temple, 1υst Viscount Cobham
Stowe Sale, 11 October 1922, lots 3792-99
Northcliffe School, Grove Place, Southampton
Phillips Sale, 18 June 1985, lot 168, illus. and back cover
The Aspinall Foundation

Auction Details

Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art

by
Sotheby's
July 08, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK