Details
Modeled as suspended drapery, hung with a quiver of arrows, trumpets, flaming urns, fruit, flowers and birds
12012 in. (306 cm.) high, 3812 in. (98 cm.) wide, overall
Provenance
With Mallett, London, 2014.
Literature
Mallett Spring Catalogue, 4 July 2013, London, p. 114.
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Lot Essay

The monumental scale and lush, naturalistic ornament relates of this remarkable trophy relates it to a celebrated set of four trophies attributed to the emigré carver Sefferin Nelson and supplied to George, Prince of Wales for the Throne Room at Carlton House, and now in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace (see H. Clifford-Smith, Buckingham Palace, London, 1931, fig. 141 for an illustration of one). However the distinctive carving and the woods used, points to a European, and probably Italian origin. Related trophies were sold from the collection of Ann and Gordon Getty; Christie’s, New York, 22 October 2022, lot 320 ($20,160), and two pairs formerly in the Teatro Scala, Milan, sold Julians Park and Six private Collections; Christie’s, London, 8 June 2021, lots 42-3. A further pair of wall trophies, described as George III style, was sold from the von Bülow Collection, Clarendon Court, Newport, Rhode Island; Sotheby's New York, 28-29 October 1988, lot 318.

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