Antique Polychrome Carved Wood Cherub Wall Sculpture, Circa Late 19th Century
Antique Polychrome Carved Wood Cherub Wall Sculpture, Circa Late 19th Century
Antique Polychrome Carved Wood Cherub Wall Sculpture, Circa Late 19th Century. This finely carved polychrome wood cherub holds a small guitar/mandolin. Likely produced for use in a church, the sculpture is carved and gessoed with over-paint, gilding and inset glass eyes, only fragments of the glass eyes remain. Rendered as if in mid-flight with wings outstretched, clutching their instrument. Unsigned.
Condition: Great antique condition. Overall surface patina and paint craquelure commensurate with age. Light losses to painted surface, fragments of glass eyes present, and losses to a few wood fingers on the cherub’s left hand (as detailed in images).
Specs: 19 3/4” H | 14” W | 8 1/2” D
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