19th & 20th Century Sculpture

19th & 20th Century Sculpture

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Chauncey Bradley Ives

Bust of a Gentleman

Lot Closed

July 14, 11:30 AM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Chauncey Bradley Ives

American

1810 - 1894

Bust of a Gentleman


signed and dated: C.B. IVES. / Sculp. / FLORENCE / 1851.

white marble

with a fragmentary label printed: THE NEW YORK ARCADE... OF MEDICINE LIBRARY / WHEN REMOVED PLEASE RETURN TO THE RARE BOOK DEPARTMENT

62cm., 24½in.

The present bust compares closely to Ives's bust of Isaac Newton Phelps, dated 1855, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 66.22). It could possibly represent the same sitter.