Garden Sculpture, the Piet Jonker Collection

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Lot 167
  • 167

A pair of composition stone lidded urns

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 EUR
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Description

  • each urn 125cm. high; each pedestal 100cm. high
each ovoid body moulded with wrythen decoration, the cover with bud finial, on square panelled pedestals (4)

Provenance

Formerly in the collection of the late Sir John Gielgud, O.M., C.H., K.B., sold as lot 287, Sotheby's Sussex , May 2002.

Literature

Related Literature

J. Davis, Antique Garden Ornament, Suffolk 1991, p. 116.

Catalogue Note

After a design by William Kent (1685/86 - 1748) for Mr. Alexander Pope's garden at Twickenham.