Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 4th April 2023
Lot 73
A PAIR OF ITALIAN CARVED ALABASTER FIGURES OF...
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £1900
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Description
A PAIR OF ITALIAN CARVED ALABASTER FIGURES OF JUPITER AND SATURN
SICILIAN, LATE 17TH CENTURY
the bearded Jupiter probably holding the remainder of a thunderbolt, Saturn with his staff, swallowing one of his children, previously part of an altar piece and now later mounted on naturalistic plaster bases (2)
60.2cm high (max)
Walker Barnet and Hill, 14th October 1999, lot 101C.
Woolley and Wallis, Furniture, Clocks and Works of Art, 8th January 2020, lot 508.