Michael Lake
Head of Department
Lot 98TP
A late 17th / early 18th century gilt and patinated bronze group of the Laocoönafter the Antique, probably French
21 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £75,000 inc. premium
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A late 17th / early 18th century gilt and patinated bronze group of the Laocoön
after the Antique, probably French
depicting the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpent, on integral stepped rectangular base, dark brown and parcel gilt patina, raised on a gilt bronze mounted swept rectangular ebonised wood plinth, the bronze, 61cm high, 71cm high including plinth base (2)
depicting the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpent, on integral stepped rectangular base, dark brown and parcel gilt patina, raised on a gilt bronze mounted swept rectangular ebonised wood plinth, the bronze, 61cm high, 71cm high including plinth base (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
Montgermont collection.
Galleries Georges Petit, Paris, 16-19 June 1919, lot 340.
Ader Picard, Paris, 23 March 1979, lot 8.
Acquired by a UK private collector, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1996, European Sculpture and Works of Art from the collection formed by the British Rail Pension Fund, lot 47.
Exhibited:
Victorian and Albert Museum, 1979-1980.
Colgate University, New York State, 1983-1996.