Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day 1 - 20th April 2021
Lot 13
AN OAK RELIEF CARVED MYTHOLOGICAL PANEL
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £9000
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Description
AN OAK RELIEF CARVED MYTHOLOGICAL PANEL
LATE 16TH CENTURY
after a woodcut engraving of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Virgil Solis (German 1514-1562), depicting Orpheus playing his lyre charming the wild beasts, accompanied by a unicorn, a lion, a bull, a squirrel, birds, cherubs, a monkey, a ram, a fox, a bear and a deer in a wooded landscape, with a lozenge and stylised scroll work three-quarter border
40 x 76.8cm
Provenance
The Estate of the late Jane Sumner.