Artist: Rory Breslin (b.1963) Title: Mask of the Blackwater Signature: signed 'BRESLIN' Medium: bronze from an edition of 4 Size: 88 x 44 x 26cm (34 x 17 x 10in) Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist; Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot The second of the Custom House eastern keystones, the Mask of the Blackwater is rendition of Edward Smyth's River-God keystone. Vigorously modelled, the face reveals an interesting fusion of baroque energy and classical control. The mask has a rather sad visage with deeply shadowed eyes. Over the brows are dripping river weeds and a multitude of small fish while crowning the whole is a basket piled high with round fruits, dimpled on one face, apparently apples. No part of Ireland was so notable for apple culture in the eighteen century as the upper valley of the Munster Blackwater. In Charles Smith's History of Waterford (1746) he states that..." in the west of this county...our eider has of later years been brought to great perfection; and besides enough for our own consumption, some hundred hogsheads are yearly, in good fruit seasons, sent by sea to Dublin and other places."
Artist: Rory Breslin (b.1963) Title: Mask of the Blackwater Signature: signed 'BRESLIN' Medium: bronze from an edition of 4 Size: 88 x 44 x 26cm (34 x 17 x 10in) Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist; Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot The second of the Custom House eastern keystones, the Mask of the Blackwater is rendition of Edward Smyth's River-God keystone. Vigorously modelled, the face reveals an interesting fusion of baroque energy and classical control. The mask has a rather sad visage with deeply shadowed eyes. Over the brows are dripping river weeds and a multitude of small fish while crowning the whole is a basket piled high with round fruits, dimpled on one face, apparently apples. No part of Ireland was so notable for apple culture in the eighteen century as the upper valley of the Munster Blackwater. In Charles Smith's History of Waterford (1746) he states that..." in the west of this county...our eider has of later years been brought to great perfection; and besides enough for our own consumption, some hundred hogsheads are yearly, in good fruit seasons, sent by sea to Dublin and other places."
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