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This ivory is made after François du Quesnoy who was a Netherlandish sculptor, who spent most of working life in Rome and assimilated the classical style. His tender and sensuous reliefs of cupids, satyrs and small children were highly influential. See also inv.nos. 1060 to 1064-1853 for further reliefs in this group. It may have been made soon after his death in the second half of the seventeenth century Boudon-Machuel calls them <i>pasticci</i>, pastiches derived from in part from other compositions which Du Quesnoy executed on a larger scale in marble. Variants are also known in bronze, enamel and porcelain. The nicks on the back of the present reliefs, show that they were differentiated, and must have been made to indicate how they should be displayed at one time. The reliefs vary slightly in size from one another, but fundamentally they form a set, and must have been shown as a group together.","physicalDescription":"Relief depicting a group of seven cupids and child centaurs binding the sleeping Silenus with ivy wreaths while a nymph is painting his brows with the juice of mulberries; fighting and drinking; making wine in a vat. There are trees and a distant cityscape. Two pairs of holes are drilled into the top for fixing purposes. 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Perhaps purchased from Benjamin Lewis Vuilliamy (1780-1854), clockmaker to the Queen. Possibly formerly in the collection of the Earl of Bessborough, sale Christie's, London, 7 February 1801, lot 30 (sold for £141 15s.):'six beautiful Groups of Boys, exquisitely carved in ivory, from nature, by Fiamingo; truly chef d'oevres of this celebrated artist; from the collections of the great Duke of Buckingham. The other ivory reliefs acquired at the same time by the Museum in 1853 (1060-, 1061-, 1062-, 1063- and 1064-1853 each cost £26 5s. so that the combined price for all six reliefs was 150 guineas.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Relief, ivory carved in high relief, Bacchanalian scenes, after François Du Quesnoy, South Netherlandish, ca. 1650-1670","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Laurent, M. 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'Camillo Massimi as Patron of Scultors: François Duquesnoy, Alessandro Algardi, Francesco Fontana and Cosimo Fancetti', <u>Melbourne Art Journal</u>, no. 3, 1999, p. 28 and figs. 4-7 on pp. 28-29"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lock, L. E. ' Art and Management of Netherlandish Wood Sculpture 1600 - 1750', <u>Sculpture Journal</u>, XII, 2004, pp. 27-28, fig. 2 on p. 25"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Inventory of Art Objects Acquired in the Year 1853. In: <u>Inventory of the Objects in the Art Division of the Museum at South Kensington, Arranged According to the Dates of their Acquisition. Vol I</u>. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1868, p. 41"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>The Art Journal</u>, no. 852, pp. 115, 146, 191, 219, 244, 277"},{"reference":{"text":"Longhurst, Margaret H., <u>Catalogue of Carvings in Ivory</u>. Part II. 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