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LOT 1131

Post Medieval Georgian Marble Ritual Procession Panel

18TH CENTURY AD

23 1/4" (23 kg, 59 cm).

A carved marble figural architectural plaque, one of the central elements of a large and important chimney breast, with chamfered rear edges depicting Maenads in a Bacchic procession, the rear figure with vessel and a naked child behind.

Provenance

Found Folkestone Road, Walthamstow, 1976, while excavating for fence posts by vendor's father. Published in the Guardian 19th November 1976 and exhibited in Walthamstow's Vestry House Museum in the 1970s.

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LOT 1131

Post Medieval Georgian Marble Ritual Procession Panel

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,388

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