A Rare Pair of George III Period Painted Lead Putti Representing Spring & Summer c.1800 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Wonderfully weathered

Wonderfully weathered

“D O M (to the greatest and best God) Of this chapel blessed gifts from Pope Benedict XIV is given in perpetuity whenever the ritual of mass for the expiation of souls is celebrated souls of the dead from the noble family of Grassi who by whatever nature of kinship or relatedness belong to it or can belong to it for as long as either it retains the right of patronage of this shrine or no-one else from that family survives that in the above mentioned patents gives the 14 may 1755”

the hand stitched horizontal bicolor white and red flag has a consistent gentle fade across the fabric

the reverse stamped ‘London’

much like the snow globes of the era

A Rare Pair of George III Period Painted Lead Putti Representing Spring & Summer c.1800 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews Wonderfully weatheredOrigin: EnglishPeriod: George IIIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1800Height: 14. 5 & 14Width: 7Depth: 7or Bases at 6 roundThe beautifully modelled lead putti, of good size and hand painted in black and red, representing two of the four seasons, one holding a basket of flowers emblematic of spring, the other with sickle and freshly cut wheat, and of summer, both surviving in untouched condition from George III period England. The condition of the wholes is