Lot 267: Cheere, John 1709 - 1787 Flora, Allegory of Spring

Cheere, John 1709 - 1787 Flora, Allegory of Spring Lead, cast, sandstone plinth, cuboid sandstone base with plinth and fundament 1763 66 3/4 in. (mit Plinthe), 25 1/4 in. (Sockel)

The Man at Hyde Park Corner. Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787, published by Temple Newsam Leeds, exhibition catalogue, Leeds 1979, cat. no. 28, not paginated / Auction catalogue, The T. Crowther & Son Collection of Architectural Furnishings, Christie's, London, 12-14 October 1992, lot 1436

1763 ordered by George William, 6th Earl of Coventry (1722-1809) for 53 pounds 1 shilling and 1 pence, together with a Ceres, for Croome Court (cf. letter of the archivist Mr John A. Partridge, the account books of Croome Court, March 1964; in Gregor Norman-Wilcox: Two figures from Croome Court, in: Bulletin of the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, vol. XVII (1965), no. 3, p.14 - 32, p. 26)