Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves
Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves

Carved Wood Armorial Crests / Bears or Wolves

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carved, painted, and gilded wood armorial crests / carvings, great faces, lots of personality, great teeth

''out of a ducal coronet or, a bear's head, ppr.''

perhaps having to do with the Family Brereton

(we believe them to be bears, not wolves, because of their smaller rounded ears and their up turned noses / snouts)

wolves are typically depicted with larger more pointed ears and noses

England, 18th century   

some losses / as found 

 

MEASUREMENTS   

15.5'' H x 11'' diameter

 

an almost identical pair sold at Christie's Paris, 22 September 2020

Sale 18932, Lot 38

Rare Pair of Wolf Heads in Carved Wood and Painted Polychrome, Italy, probably 18th century

Collections: From the Villa Les Cèdres in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, from the collections of HRH Princess Murat, from the estate of Madame Françoise Heftler and from the Henri Klinger Collections

Origin:

Acquired from the Sylvain Levy-Alban Gallery, Paris, October 14, 2006