. Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur the late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq. New York [electronic resource]. fs Mounted on a black velvet panel and framed in eboni/ed wood.(5)7) A. (ienette, carrying a bird. Brown patina. Signed in the middle foreground, Barvk. Ilright. I„ inches: length. inches. (100) B. V irginia Hart. Brown at the left. Harvk. Height. 11 „ inches: hngth. .> ;, inchis. (98) (. Leopard. 1831. Brown patina. Signed in the middle foreground, Harve. Height, l> J, inches: length. .>:, inches. (99) 1). Puma. 1831. Brow
. Illustrated catalogue of the art treasures collected by the well-known connoisseur the late Cyrus J. Lawrence, Esq. New York [electronic resource]. fs Mounted on a black velvet panel and framed in eboni/ed wood.(5)7) A. (ienette, carrying a bird. Brown patina. Signed in the middle foreground, Barvk. Ilright. I„ inches: length. inches. (100) B. V irginia Hart. Brown at the left. Harvk. Height. 11 „ inches: hngth. .> ;, inchis. (98) (. Leopard. 1831. Brown patina. Signed in the middle foreground, Harve. Height, l> J, inches: length. .>:, inches. (99) 1). Puma. 1831. Brown patina. Signed in the middle foreground. Barve. Height, J s inches: length. &% inches. A frame of four low-reliefs modelled in a peculiar flat style inorder to look well when let into stone or wood as civet-cat carries in its mouth a foreign bird. A half-grownVirginia stag is pacing fast. A leopard stalks along withlowered head and curling tail. An American puma lifts its headto growl at some object in the trees or the sky. Finely simpledecorative pieces. These are all early works, at or near 1830. 856—(89) Pais Gkeek. ( With antique medallions. Green patina. Tosuit the taste for classic subjects so promi-nent under the Empire, the sculptor was arti-san enough to furnish candlesticks in thefashion. The chief decorations are medal-lions, in which he has followed the beauti-ful coins of Syracuse, with the head of agoddess, perhaps, Diana, surrounded bydolphins. Siiiin-tl oil tilt font. HaHVK. Height, 10/2 Inehtt. 357—(88) Iaih Tmioi) Candlesticks Vine design: locust in relief. Green patina. A pair of candle-slicks in a back to Nature vein, which ought to have- receivedthe approval of Huskin, if anything French later than the Four-teenth Century could please that doughty Briton. Ivy leaves,morning glories and other flowers, tendrils and vines, composean amusing ensemble in lighter vein. Climbing up the shaft is alarge beetle, with all its anten
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