A 17TH CENTURY OAK CARYATID PERSONIFYING LUST

A 17TH CENTURY OAK CARYATID PERSONIFYING LUST

C.1620

in the form of a lady, holding a snake with a forked tongue in her right hand, her bare naked left leg thrust forward, together with two other oak caryatids, one primitively carved with a lady with a bird, the other a personification of Hope with her symbol the anchor (3)

53.8cm high (max)

Provenance

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.