Collinge Antiques

Description

Fabulous pair of 18th.c. French polychrome painted wooden figures c.1780. Unusual form, carved from flat boards just 6″ wide but 51″ long, presumably designed as a decorative architrave for either side of a window or doorway. Modelled as female figures, shown in profile and naked to the waist. Carved features with beautiful original paintwork, note the rouged cheeks and lips and the particularly good treatment of the eyes, and original gilding to the hair. Below the waist the bodies morph into Classical scrolling acanthus leaves also with their original polychrome paintwork against a gilded ground. Some obvious wear to the paintwork and a couple of old fixing holes, generally they have survived in remarkable condition.
Dimensions: width 6″, height 51″.
Please contact us for more images, delivery and shipping quotes. Alternatively you are welcome to view and collect at our large warehouse showroom in Llandudno Junction, North Wales (approximately 45mins from Chester). We have a large and ever changing selection of genuine good quality antique furniture of all types and have twice been shortlisted for the Home and Antiques Magazine Antique Shop of the Year Award. 01492 580022.