A Beautiful George III Period Lead Garden Ornament Cast as a Bacchanalian Putto

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A Beautiful George III Period Lead Garden Ornament Cast as a Bacchanalian PuttoOrigin: English Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 1820 Height: 17. 25 inches Width: 9 inches Depth: 8 inches Weight: 14. 3 KGS (all approx and at maximum) The weighty baroque style George III period lead garden ornament, in the form of a Bacchanalian cherub wearing a grape vine wreath in swathed robes, perched on a log with one hand raised to the face, the other open palmed holding a bunch of grapes,

though is apparently unsigned

and designers sought to create quality pieces with restrained unpretentious decoration

and the case is also of the period

The reverse of the sign shows old off white paint and two wooden strut supports

the Red Deer and Fallow Deer

with the first King to have done so being Alexander II (1214-1249)

The long and double hinged two part legs giving the figure yet more function with the handles well worn and positioned through the dummies base and out the other side for control

Most surviving gazelle species are considered threatened to varying degrees and four species became extinct in recent times due to human causes

Width: 7 inches

terminating in a pointed finial

although true ivory was highly popular in the Art Deco period

with latin labels “Rana Temporaria” for Frog

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