A 17TH CENTURY OAK CARYATID PERSONIFYING LUST
A 17TH CENTURY OAK CARYATID PERSONIFYING LUST
C.1620
in the form of a lady, holding a snake with a forked tongue in her right hand, her bare naked left leg thrust forward, together with two other oak caryatids, one primitively carved with a lady with a bird, the other a personification of Hope with her symbol the anchor (3)
53.8cm high (max)
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.
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A 17TH CENTURY OAK CARYATID PERSONIFYING LUST
C.1620
in the form of a lady, holding a snake with a forked tongue in her right hand, her bare naked left leg thrust forward, together with two other oak caryatids, one primitively carved with a lady with a bird, the other a personification of Hope with her symbol the anchor (3)
53.8cm high (max)
Provenance
Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.