Antique/Vintage French Grape Hod or ‘Hotte’ c.1900

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Antique/Vintage French Grape Hod or ‘Hotte’ c.1900Once an essential tool of the French grape harvest, this traditional Hotte was carried on the back throughout the vineyards of Avignon and the Gironde, gathering bunches of grapes by hand long before mechanical picking took over. Made in galvanised metal and painted with the historic Chteauneuf du Pape name and papal crest a lineage that reaches back to the 14th Century, when the Popes resided in Avignon it carries the spirit of the regions great

With animated expressions and in finely cast stone which looks carved

flowers and cherubs in gilt and polychromed gesso

With wonderful provenance from National Trust property Stowe House

on their original plinths

In 18th Century Venice

giving a warm patina and a quiet

Sold as part of one of the greatest house sales of all times

gessoed and polychromed Spanish Crucifixion

It is rare to find such large scale and matching pairs of these urns

During this period large collections of Lepidoptera flooded Europe

Classical figures adorn a deep frieze carved with a mythological bas-relief: a half-draped female figure Iphigenia seated below a statue of a goddess on a high plinth

17th Century

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