The Winter Antiques Show in NYC opens this weekend at the Park Avenue Armory, and there will be some spectacular pieces from Barbara Israel Garden Antiques.
Among the offerings:
An English carved sandstone dog -- 18th century -- The Dog of Alcibiades -- a replica of a 2nd century Roman copy of a Hellenistic bronze. (got that?).
AND ... a pair of carved architectural fragments with bellflowers and rams' heads -- from Campion Hall, a home built in 1906 in Andover, MA, designed by Stephen Codman.
There's also a carved stone bench from the gardens of Arthur Curtiss James, Beacon Hill;a lead cistern, five feet in diameter, with signs of the zodiac on the exterior and marine life motifs on the interior; cast-iron urns from the W. Spence Cork Street Foundry in Dublin, and much more.
Certainly worth a look, anyway.
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