BATHING FIGURINE (ONE OF TWO)

Creator(s): Unknown (Sculptor)

On view in: Marjorie Post's Dressing Room

About this object

Each represents a female nude seated on a robe on an oval plaque. The one on the left raises her left hand to her head and holds in her right hand a tambourine on top of some grapes and grape leaves and the standard of a banner (.1), all resting on the plaque. The figure on the right holds a spray of roses with her lowered left hand; her right arm rests on her right leg (.3). Each statuette with plaque rests on a pedestal shaped like an oval truncated fluted column, which in turn sits on a separate base decorated with applied gilt bronze vine scroll. All on four low top-like feet in gilt bronze.

Object name:

BATHING FIGURINE (ONE OF TWO)

Made from:

White marble -- gilt bronze

Made in:

France

Date made:

18th c.

Size:

Without Base: 6 in. (15.2 cm) 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

22.4.1-2

Class:

STONE

Signature marks:

MARK "DG" [Incized on base]

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973