Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
Spetchley - Property from the Berkeley Collection
PROBABLY SWISS, 18TH CENTURY | Sign in the Form of an Apple
Auction Closed
December 11, 04:05 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
PROBABLY SWISS, 18TH CENTURY
Sign in the Form of an Apple
copper, with a wrought iron stem, with traces of lacquer
probably from an inn sign (Wirtshausschild) 'zum goldenen Apfel'
45cm., 17¾in.
Probably Rose Berkeley (1861-1922)
‘Spetchley Park - I. Worcestershire, The Seat of Mr. R. V. Berkeley', Country Life, 8 July 1916, p. 47, illustrated in the Entrance Hall. Country Life write '...one of the most interesting troves made by Mr and Mrs Berkeley.. is a gigantic apple with foliaged stalk wrought in copper, and would have gone to the Basel Museum had not the owners proved the swifter purchasers'.
Inventory, 1949, 'A Large Bronze Apple' in the Front Hall