Italian Carved Oak Guardian Angel c.1650

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Italian Carved Oak Guardian Angel c.1650A wonderful late 17th Century Italian sculpture of an Angel carved from oak, after Simone Cantarinis Guardian Angel Walking with Child etching (PESARO 1612 VERONA 1648). Like the work of Cantarini, the sculpture unites aspects of Italian classicism with a bold naturalism. The sculptor has achieved an ethereal delicacy and a vibrant quality to the work. With emotive and life like gestures, movement and expression to the features of the Guardian Angel

giving the piece a lighter and more architectural character than many later Victorian examples

The lead has weathered to a soft pale grey with gentle variation across the surface

visited the Minster

based on the passage from the Book of Revelation that describes a woman "clothed with the sun

This exquisite late 18th-century circular snuff box is set with a finely detailed Roman micromosaic depicting the Doves of Pliny

Would look fantastic as statement interior pieces or garden

flowers and berries

A superbly patinated cast iron French bistro table c

The work is based around the ornamentation within the Ara Pacis Augustae in Rome (an altar in Rome dedicated to Pax

followed by a proclamation in 1664 forbidding the importation of glass plates

Clothed in a simple and fluid dress with minimal folding and a central button fastened clasp

The couple are wearing traditional Dutch costumes from the 18th Century