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Lot 546
After the antique. A mid-19th century Italian Siena marble Grand Tour model of a Roman lamp, the body in the form of an Egyptian winged female Pharaoh figure, the lid with a sleeping bust of a lady with an owl, with a detachable griffin handle, the base with female masks, the rosso antico marble plinth with inset classical panels, 39.7cm high. See Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1984, Vol. II, p.131, fig.287, for a similar oil lamp signed 'B. Boschetti', in giallo antico, in the Museum Mario Praz, Rome.
Lot 566
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (French 1824-1887). A bronze group of Psyche awakening Cupid, signed 'A. CARRIER-BELLEUSE', mounted on a verde antico marble base, 44.3cm high, 53.1cm wide. Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887) was a pupil of David d'Angers and was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He is probably most well known for the fact that Auguste Rodin worked as his assistant between 1864 and 1870. The story of Cupid and Psyche is originally from Metamorphoses and concerns itself with the obstacles of love between Psyche (Soul) and Cupid or Amor (Desire/Love) and their eventual sacred marriage. The bronze depicts the moment when Psyche (who was told by her sisters that Cupid was a vile winged serpent) uses a lamp to see Cupid and kill him, but when the light reveals such a beautiful creature she startles and subsequently wounds herself on one of Cupid's arrows. Struck with a feverish passion she spills hot oil from the lamp and wakes him.
Lot 1437
Mayer and Phelps (London, Melbourne and Cape Town) doctor's leather travelling case and contents including instruments, proctoscope end and stretcher, vaginal speculum, surgical spreader, portable steriliser (spirit lamp type). Allen and Hanbury c1930. Makers of instruments include Lipodol - Lafays; Paris, Mayer and Phelps, C.F Thakray, A Gougen, Arnold etc. Label indicates once owned by Dr.Gwendoline Cooke M.B.1937 of Nuneaton, also included in the drawers are early theatre caps, glass syringes, hypodermic needles, sutures, Brook airway etc. The case measuring 42 x 32 x 22cm
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