JOSEPH GOTT (1785-1860)
£ 4,800.00
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JOSEPH GOTT (1785-1860)
'A HINDU WOMAN PLACING A LAMP ON THE GANGES’
Terracotta
13.5in. (34cm) high
This terracotta figure is a finished study for the marble version, sold Christie’s, London, 28 September 1989. The marble was originally commissioned by Gott’s patron Benjamin Rawson of Nidd Hall, Yorkshire, and takes its inspiration from the fashionable Orientalist romance Lalla Rookh, by Thomas Moore.
'A HINDU WOMAN PLACING A LAMP ON THE GANGES’
Terracotta
13.5in. (34cm) high
This terracotta figure is a finished study for the marble version, sold Christie’s, London, 28 September 1989. The marble was originally commissioned by Gott’s patron Benjamin Rawson of Nidd Hall, Yorkshire, and takes its inspiration from the fashionable Orientalist romance Lalla Rookh, by Thomas Moore.