19th & 20th Century Sculpture

Chauncey Bradley Ives

Bust of a Gentleman

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July 14, 11:30 AM GMT

Estimation

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Chauncey Bradley Ives

American

1810 - 1894

Bust of a Gentleman

signed and dated: C.B. IVES. / Sculp. / FLORENCE / 1851.

white marble

with a fragmentary label printed: THE NEW YORK ARCADE... OF MEDICINE LIBRARY / WHEN REMOVED PLEASE RETURN TO THE RARE BOOK DEPARTMENT

62cm., 24½in.

The present bust compares closely to Ives's bust of Isaac Newton Phelps, dated 1855, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no. 66.22). It could possibly represent the same sitter.