The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Evening Sale

Bust of Alexander Pope Louis François Roubiliac

Buste d’Alexander Pope

Auction Closed

November 5, 05:54 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

London, mid-18th century

bronze with dark brown patina; on a dark red veined marble socle

48 cm. high overall, 18⅞in.

Reputedly the Plowden-Wardlaw family at Castle Craigie, Ayrshire;

Thence by descent to Margaret Spurway, née Plowden-Wardlaw;

Thence by descent in the same family;

Sotheby's London, 6 July 2007, lot 136;

Where acquired.

Fame & Friendship. Pope Roubiliac and the Portrait Bust, Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild Collections), 2014.

M. Baker, Fame & Friendship. Pope Roubiliac and the Portrait Bust, exh. cat., Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild Collections), 2014, pp. 88-89, cat. 34.

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