A Draped Woman holding a Duck
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
303 mm (Height); 305 mm (Circumference)
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485294
Summary
Bronze, A Draped Woman holding a Duck, A nineteenth-century bronze statuette of a partially draped woman with a naked top; she is holding a duck, whose head and neck appear at waist level out of some of the drapery.
Provenance
by descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
80 (on front of base)