Portrait of the Coleridge Daughters, Audrey Jane (1878-1922) and Phyllis (1883-1950) both seated on a yellow sofa, looking at a picture book Oil on Canvas 110.5 x 141cm(43 1/2 x 55 1/2in.) Provenance : From The Chanter's House collection of Lord Coleridge and a Coleridge family Trust Given the ages of the two young girls, this intimate double portrait is likely to have been painted between 1885-1888. The artist provides a sense of domesticity within the limited space of the picture, suggested by the pastoral scene on the 18th century screen behind the two sitters, the doll's house and flowers beside them and a story book, possibly a fairy tale, which they are in the process of reading. The picture book, which is partially obscured by Audrey's hand, appears to depict a bear and cubs. The artist explores various interesting themes within this work, including maternity, protection, love and imagination, and is thus a quite touching illustration of childhood and the connection between sisters.
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A pair of bronze reductions of the Borghese and Medici vases , 19th century, each rendered in crisp detail with the figures and foliate ornament finely chased and in high relief, 36cm high Comparative Literature : 'Taste and the Antique', Francis Haskell & Nicholas Penny, publ. Yale University, 1981 This pair of vases is modelled after two of the most famous classical Athenian vases from the second half of the 1st century AD: namely the Borghese Vase and the Medici Vase. In 1807 Napoleon Bonaparte purchased the Borghese Vase from the Borghese family and by 1811 it was on display in the Musée Napoléon, now the Louvre. The so-called Medici Vase appeared in the inventory of the Medici collection in the mid 1500's. It was much celebrated in the second half of the 17th Century, featuring in many prints, including one of the earliest and finest prints by Stefano della Bella, dated 1656, depicting the young Medici heir who was to become Grand Duke Cosimo III, sitting drawing the vase. The Medici vase is now in the Uffizi Gallery. From their rediscovery in the mid 17th century, these classical vases were the most admired of antique marble vases and sometimes ascribed to Phidias (5th century BC), the legendary Greek sculptor. The two vases were often compared and copies of them were arranged as companions. Ironically they are not a pair. The Borghese vase is 1.7m tall and the Medici is 1.52m. The Borghese vase does not bear any handles, has a gadrooned lower half and a cabled motif to the base of the stem and finally an octagonal plinth. The Medici vase by contrast does have handles, acanthus leaf carving to the base and stands on a square plinth. However the subject matter could be seen as an interesting juxtaposition: the Borghese vase depicting frenzied, carousing bacchanalian figures escorting an inebriated Silenus, possibly representing the servants of King Midas capturing the prophet for their king. The Medici vase, by contrast, is believed to show the more sombre martial figures of Ulysses, Agamemnon and Iphigenia. Individually or in pairs these two vases inspired the artists catering for the grand tourists. Versions of the vases can be seen in differing scales and media and are often illustrated in paintings and watercolours from the 18th and 19th centuries.
*Orme (Edward, publisher). A collection of nineteen engravings, originally published in 'Oriental Field Sports', circa 1813, nineteen aquatints with contemporary hand colouring, each approximately 180 x 230 mm, eighteen mounted, framed and glazed, one mounted, with twenty-five pages of descriptive text The images comprise of:- Hog Hunters in India going out No.1, Hog Hunters in India 2., Hog Hunters in India 3., India Hog Hunters 4., Shooters coming by Surprise upon a Tiger, Shooting Anecdote India 1., Shooting Anecdote India 2., Seamen Killing a Polar Bear, Bird Catching from Bellow, Taking Vipors, Chamois Shooters in the Tyrol, Hunting a Panther, Shooting Antelopes India, A Tiger Springing upon an Elephant, Shooting a Leopard, Elephant in a Pitfall, Anecdote Gt. Boa Serpent & a Bull, North America Bear Hunt, Chamois Shooters ascending the rocks (mounted). (19)
A George III silver two handled oval Tea Tray, with engraved coat of arms with coronet and motto 'Bear and Forbear', pierced and beaded border with swags, paterae and portraits, London 1816, 29in.NB: The Coat of Arms are those of Hercules Langford rowley, 2nd Baron Langford of Summerhill, Co. Meath, Ireland 1795-1839
‡PHYLLIS MARY BONE RSA (1894-1972)Grizzly Bearsigned and dated 'Phyllis M. Bone, 1928'bronze8in H (20.3cm)Phyllis Bone specialised in animal sculpture. She took her sculpture diploma at the Edinburgh College of Art, before moving to Paris where she studied under Navellier. Sir Robert Lorimer later engaged her services for the animal sculpture for the Scottish War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle
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