Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 30 Mar 2022
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A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF WISDOM
A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF WISDOM
BY GEORGE SIMONDS (1843-1929), DATED '1872'
the scantily clad maiden standing on a tortoise, holding a sphere in her right hand, the base signed and dated 'George Simonds Romae Fec. MDCCCLXXII'
114.4cm high
Catalogue Note
George Blackall Simonds was a sculptor and director of H & G Simonds Brewery in Reading. In 1858 he went to study sculpture under Professor Johannes Schilling in Dresden and he lived and worked in Rome for 12 years from 1864.
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