Four Horses with a Hawk Surmounting a Column by J.W. Mills, England circa 1980

£1,400

SKU: C959

Medium: Bronze

Diameter: 31

Height: 35

Current condition: Excellent Condition

Provenance: From the estate of John Mills

Country: England

John W Mills (1933-2023)

PPRBS, ARCA,FRSA

Four Horses with a Hawk surmounting a column.

Patinated Bronze on a wooden circular base  embellished with marker.

32 cm high x 31 cm diameter

 This is a model for the square in front of the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina USA. 

‘The “Quadriga” sculpture in the fountain at the front entrance (between Meeting and Hasell Street) is by John W. Mills, a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and the Royal Society of Arts. Its four 9-foot bronze horses represent the significance of the horse in Charleston’s history, as well as its present-day role. At the top of the sculpture is a Carolina bird of prey.’

Charleston is famous for horse racing and horse carriages and is the home of the first American Jockey Club, rather like Newmarket in England. 

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