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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): after 1781 - before 1793; Classification(s): sculpture, relief, relief, red wax; Acquisition: given by Goetze, Sigismund, Mrs, 1943, Given by Mrs Sigismund Goetze [M.13-1943]
Description: Relief, red wax. Two oval portrait medallions with guilloche borders entwined with ribbons, with between them at the top, the royal arms of France surmounted by a crown flanked by flowers, and supported by the ends of two scrolled ribbons which descend between the medallions to a small inverted pyramidal pedestal. The medallion on the left bears a bust of Louis XVI in profile to right, and the medallion on the right, a bust of Marie Antoinette in profile to left. The relief is attached to a recessed pink, grey, and cream marble frame with a beaded metal border, set in a dark green velvet covered wooden frame. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | sculpture Unknown relief | Temporal: | name=4th quarter 18th century; start=1781; end=1793 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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