Ormolu figures illustrating the grape harvest
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1850 - 1900
Materials
Ormolu
Measurements
190 x 120 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 435348
Summary
Ormolu on ormolu bases, pair of figures of a nude boy and girl illustrating the grape harvest, on ormolu oval bases, French, 19th century.
Full description
Ormolu ornaments illustrating the theme of the grape harvest; French, nineteenth century. The boy wears a hat with an upturned brim and looks downward to bottom right. He leans against a tree trunk and holds up grape vine, raising it to the sky with his right hand. A stick is propped up against the tree trunk. The girl wears her hair tied up with a bow and looks downward to bottom left. A band of cloth is draped around her hips and she wears a bag for collecting grapes. Her right arm rests on a basket of grapes placed atop a tree trunk. She holds up a grapevine with her left hand. Alice Rylance-Watson September 2018
Provenance
Purchased with a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) from Edward John Peregrine Cust, 7th Baron Brownlow, C. St J. (b.1936) in 1984.
Credit line
Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund by the National Trust in 1994)