Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head
Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head

Carved Wood Family Crests '' Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or A Bear Head

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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 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