Priestess of Isis
John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1765 - 1766
Materials
Plaster
Measurements
1880 mm (statue) 1370 mm (pedestal); 610 mm (base)
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 562916.1
Summary
White-painted plaster sculpture, on marble block with marble pedestal (yellow), Priestess of Isis by John Cheere (1709 – London 1787). A full-length statue of a priestess of the Egyptian goddess Isis. She wears knotted garments with a fringed mantle. She is holding a jug in left hand and a ‘sistrum’ in her right hand. She is wearing headdress sandals and tassled shawl. The original was found in Hadrian's Villa of at Tivoli and is now in Capitoline Museum, Rome. (Gladiatore 15). This example probably made by John Cheere, 1765-66, from Matthew Brettingham junior's moulds.
Makers and roles
John Cheere (London 1709 – London 1787), sculptor Matthew Brettingham the Younger (1725 - 1803), mould maker