Bacchus
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
485 x 220 x 165 mm; 600 mm (Circumference)
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485295
Summary
Bronze on a wooden base, Bacchus. A statuette.
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
81 (painted in white, bottom right of tree stump)