A Beautiful George III Period Lead Garden Ornament Cast as a Bacchanalian Putto sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles all suggest mourning

all suggest mourning

The year of 1820 saw George IV of the United Kingdom ascends the Throne on the death at Windsor Castle of his father George III (after 59 years on the throne)

Lending his ear to some condoling tale

Now back in the UK

Pictures housed in significant ecclesiastical buildings are of great historical importance

A Beautiful George III Period Lead Garden Ornament Cast as a Bacchanalian Putto sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles all suggest mourningOrigin: English Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 1820 Height: 17. 25 inches Width: 9 inches Depth: 8 inches Weight: 14. 3 KGS (all approx and at maximum) The weighty baroque style George III period lead garden ornament, in the form of a Bacchanalian cherub wearing a grape vine wreath in swathed robes, perched on a log with one hand raised to the face, the other open palmed holding a bunch of grapes,