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Circular Bronze Base
Circular Bronze Base
Circular Bronze Base
Circular Bronze Base
Circular Bronze Base

Image credit: National Trust Images

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An early nineteenth-century French circular bronze base decorated with (applied) gilt-bronze mounts in form of four standing male figures holding swags of garlands. It is the base to the statuette of 'Venus and Cupid' (NT 772024.1). It was recorded in the Yellow Sitting Room in the 1939 inventory of Osterley Park, 'A French bronze group of Venus and Cupid, on a circular pedestal base with full length classical male figures in gilt relief holding swags. First Empire.'

National Trust, Osterley Park

Isleworth

Title

Circular Bronze Base

Date

c.1800–1830

Medium

cast gilt bronze

Measurements

H 14 x W 16 x D (?) cm

Accession number

772024.2

Acquisition method

purchased from George Child-Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey (1910–1998) by HM Government in 1949 for the Nation and vested in the Victoria and Albert Museum; transferred to the National Trust, 2002

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Other

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