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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. 1059 to 1061-1853 and 1063 to 1064-1853for 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 pasticci, 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, carved in high relief depicting a group of six infant putti and two fauns are playing around  Silenus' donkey. Trees are to be seen in low relief. Two pairs of holes are drilled into the top for fixing purposes. One small nick is visible at the centre of the reverse of the relief. 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Perhaps purchased from Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (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'oeuvres 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 (1059-, 1060-, 1061-, 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 scene, after François Du Quesnoy, South Netherlands, ca. 1650-1670","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lock, L. E. 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