Car mascot in the form of a rearing horse
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
c. 1920 - 1950
Materials
Chrome
Measurements
150 mm (Height)
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516562
Summary
Chrome, car mascot in the form of a rearing horse, c. 1920-50. A chrome-plated statuette of a rearing horse, its forelegs tucked under its belly. On an integral circular base, in turn mounted on a rectangular black ebonised wood base. Almost certainly designed as a car mascot; partly Cubist in style, but also clearly a product of the Art Deco period, it was probably designed and made in the 1920s or 1930s.
Full description
The rearing horse was almost certainly produced as a car mascot. It is quite close in style to art deco horses produced by the French sculptor André Vincent Becquerel (1893-1981). Lord Fairhaven owned another chrome car mascot, in the form of a dancing girl, manufactured by the British company Desmo (NT 515223). Jeremy Warren 2019
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Credit line
Anglesey Abbey, The Fairhaven Collection (The National Trust)