Circular bronze base
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1800 - 1830
Materials
Cast gilt bronze
Measurements
140 mm (Height); 160 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 772024.2
Summary
Early nineteenth-century French circular bronze base decorated with [applied] gilt-bronze mounts in form of four standing male figures holding swags of garlands. Base to statuette of Venus of Cupid NT 772024.1
Provenance
Recorded in the Yellow Sitting Room in the 1939 inventory of Osterley Park: 'A French bronze group of Venus and Cupid, on a circular pedestal base with full length classical male figures in gilt relief holding swags. First Empire.' Purchased from George Child-Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey (1910-1998) by HM Government in 1949 for the Nation and vested in the Victoria and Albert Museum; transferred to the National Trust in 2002.
Credit line
National Trust Collections (Osterley Park, The Jersey Collection)