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LOT 1462
1st May 2025
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LOT 1462
"The Monty Python Foot, a crackle glazed pottery foot with multicoloured big toe, applied with a presentation plaque to the top inscribed ""The Monty Python Foot, Donated to Breakthrough Breast Cancer, May 2005"", otherwise unmarked, height 19cm. Note: A number of these feet were commissioned from a model maker who worked for Monty Python. The foot is based on Cupid's foot in the painting 'An Allegory with Venus and Cupid' by Italian painter Agnolo Bronzino, which hangs in the National Gallery, London. Terry Gilliam saw this painting and was inspired to immortalise the foot on television."
Estimate: £40 – £60
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