Four Urns, At Rose Garden, At Anglesey Abbey is a Grade II* listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Sculpture.
Four Urns, At Rose Garden, At Anglesey Abbey
- WRENN ID
- haunted-gravel-khaki
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Cambridgeshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- Sculpture
- Source
- Historic England listing
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 J Kenworthy-Browne, unpublished survey report for National Trust, East Anglia Regional Office (1980).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
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