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A satyr is seated on a tree stump playing a pipe; while two young fauns dance at his feet.
The group has its original griotte marble base.
Art we’ve helped buy at The Bowes Museum
Three evening dresses
Acquired 2009
The Enid Goldblatt collection of porcelain
Acquired 1989
The Blind Beggar and His Daughter
Acquired 1963
The Autumn Bride (Portrait of Marguerite Moreno)
Acquired 2008
Table Clock
Acquired 1959
Table
Acquired 1977
Suite of gilt seat furniture
Acquired 2005
Suite of Early George II Furniture
Acquired 1962
Serving dish
Acquired 2011
Satyr with Two Fauns
Acquired 1960
Saint Luke
Acquired 2005
Sèvres ewer and basin
Acquired 2012
River Scene with Farmhouse
Acquired 1955
Regence ormolu-mounted Chinese porcelain casket
Acquired 2013
Portrait bust of Madame Du Barry
Acquired 1992
Plaque: Portrait of a Woman
Acquired 2005
Pair of Vincennes bulb pots
Acquired 1977
Pair of pedestals
Acquired 1977
Pair of Console tables
Acquired 1965
Pair of candelabra
Acquired 1960
Pair of Adélaïde vases
Acquired 2002
Mr John Bowes's 'Daniel O'Rourke' with Frank Butler up
Acquired 2011
Mirror
Acquired 1992
Louis XV silver ewer & dish
Acquired 1968
Louis XV Bureau
Acquired 1955
Lady Ludlow Collection of English Porcelain
Acquired 2004
La Mal'aria
Acquired 2012
James I spice box
Acquired 1977
i) The ‘Lover’ of a Venetian Lady; ii) The Encounter of a Procurator with his Wife at ‘Ridotto’
Acquired 2013
Gibside, Seat of the Earl of Strathmore, from the North
Acquired 1985
Fountain mask
Acquired 1966
Curio Cabinet
Acquired 1961
Cupola of San Antonio de la Florida, Madrid
Acquired 1972
Communion cup & inkstand
Acquired 1963
Collection of porcelain and earthenware
Acquired 1963
Collection of Dresden and Meissen porcelain
Acquired 1955
Collection of 10 items of furniture
Acquired 1963
Charles I Silver Wine Cup
Acquired 1948
Chandelier
Acquired 1959
Break-front bookcase
Acquired 1978
Bracket clock
Acquired 1995
Bowes Tower, Yorkshire
Acquired 2007
Barnard Castle and Bridge
Acquired 1947
Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture
Acquired 2002
Adam
Acquired 2010
A View of Barnard Castle, Yorkshire, from the River
Acquired 2008
A Necessaire de Voyage
Acquired 1981
A Musical Table Clock
Acquired 1980
A Moorland Road
Acquired 1937
18th Century enamel pieces
Acquired 2007The Bowes' collection includes three evening dresses by Madeleine Vionnet, 20th-century couturier and 'architect among dressmakers'. Funded in 2009, these gowns offer a window onto the style of their age, and speak of an inter-war world clinging to the comforts of the past.
Considered the finest work of French cabinet-maker Andre-Charles Boulle, a maquetry panel now forms the front of the 'Warwick Cabinet', incorporated in the late 18th century by an English firm. Known to have stood in Warwick Castle, the cabinet was rescued from export to America.