Etui in the form of a sportsman
British (English) School
Category
Objets de vertu
Date
c. 1780 - 1800
Materials
Ivory
Measurements
927 x 28 x 106 mm
Place of origin
Great Britain
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 517643
Summary
Ivory, etui in the form of a sportsman or hunt servant, British (English) School, c. 1780-1800. An etui in the form of a standing figure of a male sportsman or hunt servant, walking forward and looking to proper left. He wears a hunt cap with hair styled in a queue and holds a shotgun in his proper left hand and the leash of his hound in the proper right. He wears breeches, a shirt and a short waistcoat with standing collar and shawl lapel sewn with a double row of buttons. The straps from his game bag and powder flask cross over the chest and back. The huntsman walks along a track with the hound beside him and lush vegetation behind him, a tall leafy plant partially concealing the back of his proper left leg. The two parts of the etui, an ornamental case holding small articles, join at the waist. The hairstyle and attire suggests that the etui was carved in Britain circa 1780 to 1800 when the fashion for powdered hair declined and waistcoats shortened to the waist.
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)
Makers and roles
British (English) School, sculptor
References
Christie, Manson & Woods 1971: The National Trust, Anglesey Abbey, Cambridge. Inventory: Furniture, Textiles, Porcelain, Bronzes, Sculpture and Garden Ornaments’, 1971, vol. II, p. 68, no. 7.