AFTER ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE: A PAIR OF RELIEF CAST BRONZE FURNITURE MOUNTS (2)
Coleridge Collection, Possibly 18th Century
Depicting Apollo flaying Marsyas 27cm wide; 24cm high, and Apollo and Daphne, 28cm wide; 26cm high
Bidding ended. Lot is unsold.
Provenance
The
Anthony & Marietta Coleridge Collection
William
Agnew, Olympia Antiques Fair, 20th November 1995.
Theses mounts are based on the gilt-bronze examples which are
seen on an impressive armoire by Andre-Charles Boulle in the Wallace Collection
(F62), circa 1700. Boulle’s decorative schemes were inspired by
mythological stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and apparently Boulle owned various
drawings by Raphael illustrating these tales, until destroyed in a workshop
fire.
