Lot 10: Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894)

'Rebecca' inscribed 'C.B. Ives Roma 1856' (along the base) white marble 43 in. (109.3 cm.) high LITERATURE W. Gerdts, 'Chauncey Bradley Ives,' Magazine Antiques, November 1968, pp. 715-716, fig. 4, illustration of another example A. Gardner, American Sculpture, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Connecticut, 1965, p. 9, illustration of another example W. Gerdts, American Neo-Classic Sculpture, New York, 1973, pp. 68-69, illustration of another example W. Craven, Sculpture in America, New York, revised 1984, p. 286 R.J. Fairbanks et al., American Figurative Sculpture, Boston, 1986, pp. 44-45 NOTES The popularity of Ives' 1854 depiction of the Old Testament heroine resulted in twenty-five examples commissioned, twelve of which sold to New York collectors alone. Another example is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.