Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 5th October 2023
Lot 644
A FRENCH BRONZE RELIEF PLAQUE
Estimate £300 - £400
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Description
A FRENCH BRONZE RELIEF PLAQUE
LATE 17TH CENTURY
depicting a scene from a campaign, a general in the foreground directing his troops, with soldiers on horseback sighting a carriage, with a cityscape beyond and a river god in the lower right
12.6 x 26.7cm
Provenance
Purchased Sotheby's, London, 22nd April 1986, European Sculpture, Works of Art and Ironwork, lot 119.
Catalogue Note
See similar reliefs in the Louvre modelled by Desjardins in 1681 for the pedestal of the statue of Louis XIV in the Places des Victoires, Paris, and Souchal, French Sculptors, p.255.