Trapezephoron
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Blank, Parian marble
Measurements
450 mm (Height)
Collection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486387
Summary
The marble table leg or trapezephoron is formed of the head, breast, hind leg and pad of an Abyssinian lion.
Provenance
?Collected by Charles, 2nd Earl of Egremont, thence 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.