Beschreibung:

A FINE ORMULU CENTREPIECE DEPICTING KING GEORGE IV AS A ROMAN EMPEROR, BUST LENGTH BY RUNDELL BRIDGE AND RUNDELL, CIRCA 1820 After the bust of Kinge George IV by Sir Francis Chantry, looking left, in classical robes and armour, the robes pinned at the shoulder with an emerald pin and with emerald, ruby and diamond tassel beneath the right shoulder, wearing around his neck the Order of the Golden Fleece, his breastplate inset with cabouchon rubies and diamonds, the bust surrounded by six alternating lions and unicorns, all resting on a domed octagonal Gothic architectural plinth with eight ogee arched pinnacled canopies and with smaller niches between with Royal crown finials, beneath the canopies is a shield enamelled with the Royal Arms of Great Britain and with jewelled sword behind, the Thistle of Scotland amd The Shamrock of Ireland each within quatrefoil and beneath a Royal crown, statues of Athena and Mars, and within a foliage cartouch the Gold Coronation Medal, by Bernadetto Pistoricci, the stepped base engraved with Royal Monograms and presentation inscription, stamped RUNDELL BRIDGE ET RUNDELL AURIFICES REGIS LONDINI, all in fitted wood case 19½in. (49.5cm.) high The inscription reads 'TO SIR HENRY HALFORD BART. THIS BUST OF HIS LATE MAJESTY KING GEORGE IV IS PRESENTED BY THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES THE DUKES OF CUMBERLAND AND CAMBRIDGE, THE PRINCESSES AUGUSTA, THE LANGRAVINE OF HESSE HOMBER, THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER AND THE PRINCESS SOPHIE AS A TOKEN OF THEIR ESTEEM AND REGARD AND IN TESTIMONY OF THE HIGH SENSE THEY ENTERTAIN OF HIS PROFFESSIONAL ABILITY AND UNWEARIED ATTENTION DURING THE ILLNESS OF THEIR LATE BELOVED SISTER THE PRINCESS AMELIA, OF HER LATE MAJESTY QUEEN CHARLOTTE AND HIS LATE MAJESTY KING GEORGE III, HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE LATE DUKE OF YORK AND LASTLY OF HIS LATE MAJESTY KING GEORGE IV, MDCCCXXX'