Description

TL 5262
9/101

LODE
QUY ROAD
(North Side)
Four Urns, at Rose Garden, at Anglesey Abbey

GV
II*

Four urns. Early C18. Two by P Scheemakers and two by L
Delvaux (signed). White marble. The two inner urns are by
P Scheemakers (1691-1781), one carved with the Sacrifice of
Iphigenia (after the Medici vase in the Uffizi) and the other
with the Sacrifice of Apollo. The two outer urns are by
Laurent Delvaux (1696-1778), one with a relief of a Bacchanalian
and the other with a heroic subject. They were made before 1728
for Wanstead House, Essex, sold 1822 and acquired for Leigh
Court Somerset. Acquired 1952. The pedestals are decorated
with swags of oak leaves and acorns and female faces.

R Gunnis: Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, p126, 343.
R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p79, mon (3).
J Kenworthy-Browne, unpublished survey report for National
Trust, East Anglia Regional Office (1980).
Lanning-Roper: Gardens of Anglesey Abbey (1964).

Listing NGR: TL5297262200

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543577

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