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Description: | Mixed collection including furniture, ceramics, bronzes,the Straschnov Bequest of Ivories, but also the Mendel and Surtees Dawson loan of furniture. Important collection of garden sculpture including groups purchased by the Russells through the dealer Bert Crowther; 4 term figures of 2 satyrs and 2 dryads(closely related to a group at Stowe) and large free-standing urn (identical to one commissioned by Thomas Coke for Holkham Hall), all from Doyle Manor, Colnbrook and designed by William Kent. Also 17th century Northern Italian marble figure of Apollo Sauroctonous; 8 neo-classical lead urns and a vase from 3rd quarter of the 18th century, and a pair of stone vases stamped 'Coade 1794' originally at Battersea Rise House, Clapham Common, also probably purchased from Crowther. In total there are 29 costume and textile and 280 decorative art items. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Mottisfont
Romsey Hampshire United Kingdom,
SO51 0LP | Telephone: | 01794 340757 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4918 | Go to resource |
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