Winter
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1790 - 1850
Materials
Plaster, painted
Measurements
500 mm (Diameter)
Order this imageCollection
Knole, Kent (Accredited Museum)
NT 128704
Summary
Plaster roundel in relief. Seated putto facing right, tying a pair of skates on his feet, to the right a depiction of a goat. The putto is a representation of winter, the goat is the zodiac symbol for Capricorn. This roundel forms part of a group of four reliefs depicting the seasons (see NT 128692, 128696, 128700) originally designed for Eleanor Coade (1733-1821) to be reproduced in Coade stone, possibly by John Bacon (1740-1799), c.1770-1790. This is a plaster cast after the Coade stone design, cast in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. The Knole roundels all have the addition of a decorative leaf half border around the top of the roundel.
Credit line
National Trust Collections (Knole, The Sackville Collection)