A Beautiful George III Period Lead Garden Ornament Cast as a Bacchanalian Putto sub-Curios He came to international attention

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The painting is in as found condition and signed EM Ashford in ruby red whilst to the reverse one can see where the painting would have once been a larger picture

possibly originally in a school or large institution due to their dimensions

the whole is almost entirely original and with a very fine colour and patination

Base Width: 14 inches

A Beautiful George III Period Lead Garden Ornament Cast as a Bacchanalian Putto sub-Curios He came to international attentionOrigin: English Period: Late Eighteenth Early Nineteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1780 1820 Height: 17. 25 inches Width: 9 inches Depth: 8 inches Weight: 14. 3 KGS (all approx and at maximum) The weighty baroque style George III period lead garden ornament, in the form of a Bacchanalian cherub wearing a grape vine wreath in swathed robes, perched on a log with one hand raised to the face, the other open palmed holding a bunch of grapes,