John Michael Rysbrack

Lot 114: MICHAEL RYSBRACK (1694-1770), ENGLISH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Name: MICHAEL RYSBRACK (1694-1770), ENGLISH, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 277d463daf

Est: £200,000 GBP - £300,000 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 08, 2011

Item Overview

Description

SOLD IN AID OF THE ASPINALL FOUNDATION
SEATERN (SATURDAY)
Portland stone, on stone base
figure: 170cm., 67in. base: 21.5 by 71 by 71cm., 8½ by 28 by 28in.

Artist or Maker

John Michael Rysbrack

Literature

From George West's Stowe Gardens A Poem published 1732

'Last of the circle hoary Seatern stands;
Instructive Emblems fill his mystick hand.
In this a Wheel's revolving Orb declares
The never-ending Round of Rolling Years,
That holds a Vessel fill'd with fading Flowers
And Fruits collected by the ripening Hours.'

Seeley's Description of the Gardens at Stow, Northampton 1744, p.8
J. Kenworthy-Browne, 'Rysbrack's Saxon Deities', Apollo, September 1985, pp. 220-7, fig.5

Provenance

Commissioned by Sir Richard Temple, 1υst Viscount Cobham
Stowe Sale, 11 October 1922, lots 3792-99
Crowther of Syon Lodge, Isleworth, 1982
The Aspinall Foundation

Auction Details

Old Master Sculpture and Works of Art

Sotheby's

July 08, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

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

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