Furniture, Works of Art and Clocks - 2nd October 2019

Lot 393

Two Italian wax profile relief busts in Renaissance style

Estimate £80 - £120 | Hammer £40

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Description

Two Italian wax profile relief busts in Renaissance style, depicting a man, possibly a Duke, wearing a red cap and a Comtesse wearing a headdress and a necklace with a seed pearl, each mounted on slate and in a glazed ebonised moulded frame, each with a paper label indistinctly titled in pen, 12cm diameter (max). (2)

Provenance:

The Countess of Midleton, Eastwell Park Estate, Kent, thence by descent.

Captain and Mrs Brodrick of Dunley Manor, Hampshire.