A pair of early 18th century carved limewood angels in flightIn the manner of Johann Paul Czechpauer, BohemiaMounted on black painted iron stands, Size, not including stands, 71cm wide, 41cm deep, 103cm high (27.5in wide, 16in deep, 40.5in high) and 99cm high (2)注脚The style of these angels which unusually are in 'small life-size' - is characteristic of Czech Rococo wood carving at its best, for the delicacy of its sentiments and the extraordinary fluttering drapery. See: The Arts Council of Great Britain, Baroque in Bohemia, exh. cat., Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and City Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, 1969, no. 39, a wooden model for a figure of the Madonna Immaculate on the façade of the abbey church of Strahov, Prague, after 1745.