Trapezephoron
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Luna marble
Measurements
900 x 250 x 405 mm
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 486388.1
Summary
The marble table leg is formed of a lion's head with goat's horns, sometimes called a gryphon, and the breast, hind leg and paw of a lion. Five acanthus leaves form a fringe below the neck.
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.
Marks and inscriptions
82A (painted on base)