Mixed Pendant Group

Rectangular panel with carved design of flowers, berries and fruit; all modelled in high relief with gentle curvature and deep undercuts; mounted on a fabric-covered backing board. 2.1 kg, 74.5 cm



Private collection, London, UK.

Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch wood-carver who became famous for his work in Windsor Castle, St Paul's Cathedral and some other London churches, and various major buildings of the time. He was born in Holland to English parents, and his father was a merchant while Gibbons himself became a member of the Drapers' Company of London. He is usually regarded as the finest wood-carver of his day in England.

Shallow trough with basal ring, frieze of applied gold-coloured metal flower motifs with inlaid petals alternating between ruby and turquoise coloured inlays. 692 grams, 21.3 cm wide



Property of a South West London gentleman.

Dressed in a peaked cap, smock, ankle-length trousers and clogs, standing holding a churchwarden smoking pipe to his mouth with his left hand and with his right hand leaning on a stout walking stick; coopered pannier to his back with contents partly protruding at the top, small basket beside his right foot, octagonal base with recess to the underside; probable Dutch workmanship. 1.76 kg, 47 cm high



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.