Unless I am mistaken, that looks like a circus ring(you have to look down there to see it :) and that looks like a rearing horse. Any idea's what this picture is about, or where/when it was taken. Is it possibly a vaudeville stage instead of a circus ring? What a beauty she is.
Friday, February 10, 2012
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Wade G. Burck
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There is a horse in the picture? ;-)
Here's a bit of trivia for you. In Victorian times a rearing horse was often used as a hidden allusion to lust (there were many such symbols for sexuality). Sometimes an agel would be depicted in sculpture and paintings reining in a rearing horse. I have a very beautiful lamp from the mid 1800's in the figure of a winged God holding the reins of a rearing stallion. I bought it at auction, but wasn't wearing my glasses and thought it was a circus figure. Still I'm very happy I have it anyway.
Ian
Ian,
Thank you for the education, I did not know that. I wonder what the rearing horse symbolized? :) What circus figure had wings on his back, even with out glasses, geez.... Reminds me of the nit wit who out bid me for a bronze figurine of bear. At the time it was valued at 500.00 and I opened the bidding at 150.00. There were no other bidders and it was about to be hammered down, going once, going twice, when someone behind me yells, 200.00. I went 250.00, they went 300.00. I went to 500.00 and the nit wit shouted 600.00 so I passed disappointed(pissed actually) thinking "does the nit wit know what it is worth?"
At the end of the auction, the nitwit met me at the door and wanted to know if I wanted to buy the sculpture from her for 550.00 as she didn't have her glasses on and had bought it thinking it was a lion!!!!!!! Being ever so gracious, I looked her straight in the eye's(the ones without glasses) and said, "no, but I'll give you a yard, if you shove it up your ass" as I walked away.
Wade
Speaking of auctions, some years ago when I was collecting such things, a porcelein sculpture came up on ebay of 3 incredible liberty horses - the detail was incredible - dappled Spanish looking horses with intricate harness. If I had had that piece, it would have been the best thing I've ever owned. Bidding started at $200 and I was in - I watched it every day and it only had a few bids, then the last hour it suddenly went crazy and closed at over $12,000. Needless to say, there are no porcelein liberty horses in my house.
Ian
Yes, what circus figure has a winged God? However, it was white and after I got it I noticed it had been spray painted - I stripped it, and this is it now
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2335395483360.91013.1804045713&type=3#!/photo.php?fbid=2335395763367&set=a.2335395483360.91013.1804045713&type=3&theater
Wade, after a bit of searching, I found a sculpture just like the one I mentioned that sold at auction. Maybe 12 grand wasn't such a high price after all.
http://www.ukauctionnews.com/2011/09/royal-worcester-horse-models-gallop.html
Ian
I re-read the auction listing - 12 grand was a very high price for them
Ian
Ian,
That is a beautiful Worcester of the liberty horses. Thank you for sharing, I wasn't aware of it.
Wade
from Jim Stockley:
Doris Lindner did two sets of horses for Royal Worcester ..... the three rearing horses that Ian linked two and the three horses with rider "In the Ring"
There are some pictures at http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4266117
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