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Each ovoid body is hung with laurel swags suspended from lion masks, beneath a domed cover with a pine-cone finial, and rises from a socle on a square porcelain plinth applied with floral garlands and a gilt base. 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Commissioned in 1832 as his first architectural work, it crowned the entrance of the Scottish Widows' Fund head office at 5 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Providence stands at the centre with a cornucopia spilling fruit and grain; to her left a child bears a sheaf of wheat, to her right a shawled widow is seated with her children beside a founding stone dated MDCCCXV, the year of the society's establishment. Two pediment corners, carved with a plough amid wheat and with an anchor, complete the group. A work of national importance for a garden, courtyard or institutional setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e Scottish Widows, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1832 to c. 1970; Donald Mackenzie and by descent; Lyon \u0026amp; Turnbull, 2017; Lyon \u0026amp; Turnbull, lot 602, May 2025; acquired by Urnica.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Weathered surface consistent with over a century outdoors; overall in stable condition for age. 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Each fold is divided into six mirrored panels by carved and gilded rails entwined with foliage, above a lower panel carved in relief with a basket of flowers within rocaille borders. 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The seated female musician, in flowing drapery, holds a long-necked stringed instrument and gazes into the distance. She is raised on a tall ebonised wood column pedestal applied with a gilt cartouche and sweeping gilt palm fronds, making a complete sculptural ensemble some 183 cm high. Leroux exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1877 and is best known for his Orientalist figures. 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