Flora
British (English) School
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Carrara marble
Measurements
1850 x 500 x 380 mm
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436801
Summary
Marble, Flora, 18th century. A marble statue of Flora, goddess of Spring and flowers, fully draped, with shawl. Flowers held in the fold of the drapery by the proper left hip, supported by the proper left hand. The proper right hand raised, holding a wreath of flowers now broken to a fragment. On an integrally carved square base, mounted on a stone pedestal. Alice Rylance-Watson October 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)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, sculptor