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Title: Farnese Flora
Item Name: Sculpture
Maker: John Cheere (1709-87)

Description:

This item is in the Burton Constable Hall collections and is included on this database by kind permission of the Burton Constable Foundation. Flora was the goddess of flowers and spring. This bronzed statuette of the Farnese Flora is also a copy after Rysbrack. In July 1763, Constable settled his account ‘To Flora as pr Mr Cheere's Bill’ for £1 13s 6d. Located in the Staircase Hall.


Year: 1763
Materials: Bronzed plaster (over-gilded)
ID_Number: CHS 37