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Lady Fanny Maitland (english Fl. 1870s): A Unique English Bronze Of An Eel And Heron In Mortal Combat
Status:This item has been sold Sold by:Jeckyll & Co
A fine and most unusual bronze sculpture.
This has been in my personal collection for about twenty years. Internet surfing a few months after acquiring it came across ''Nottinghamshire History'' nottshistory.org.uk. and found the entry below from a book by Leornard Jacks called ''The Great Houses of Nottinghamshire and its County Families''.
The house referred to is Wallingwells, home of Sir Thomas White at the time, High Sherriff of Nottingham whose a forebears were in turn well-connected in political and legal circles.
The complete entry is available online, here is the extract pertaning to the heron bronze:
''I may mention one which appears amongst a collection of stuffed birds which occupies a portion of one of the corridors. It is a heron round whose neck an eel is coiled. The bird with the eel still alive was picked up from the shores of the lake near the house, and his death was readily accounted for. The heron had pierced the head of the eel with his long bill, and... the snake-fish round his enemy’s neck, Locked in stiff rings of adamantine coil, strangled the bird who perished with his prey. The incident is a remarkable one, and Lady Maitland, one of Sir Thomas White’s daughters, has reproduced it in bronze. This admirable model stands on the dining room mantelpiece. Lady Maitland, besides being a clever and artistic worker in bronze, as several objects in different parts of the house testify, is an equally clever worker in marble, and perhaps the best specimen of her art is a small sculptured bust of her father.''
Mounted on a rouge marble and slate base, height overall 28cm
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Condition: Some minor surface tarnishing, rouge marble with cracked edge, some nibbles to the edges of the slate base.
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Antique ID Number (AIDN): SA988288
Dateline of this antique is Victorian
Height is 21cm (8.3inches)Width is 31cm (12.2inches)Depth is 13.5cm (5.3inches)
Antique SA988288 shown on this page was made in the Victorian Era. For historical context, the timeline below highlights the period when it was created:
The Victorian Era
ANTIQUE SA988288
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Jeckyll & Co
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Tel: 07735 072466
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