Lot 5
PAIR OF CONTINENTAL CARVED AND POLYCHROMED PUTTI
18TH CENTURY
Auction: 4 October 2012 at 12:00 BST
£2,750
Description
each standing figure with traces of original polychrome decoration, now mounted on modern yellow painted pedestal bases (2)
Dimensions
Figure 92cm high
Footnote
- Of sympathetically distressed appearance
- Old restoration to hands and feet in places
- Paint flaking throughout
- Traces of old woodworm and some fragmented timber
- Modern bases do have some chips / losses to paint and gesso