Live Auction 7412Important European Furniture, Sculpture and Carpets
A CARVED MARBLE FIGURE OF MERCURY
Lot 293

A CARVED MARBLE FIGURE OF MERCURY

AFTER BERTHEL THORVALDSEN, PROBABLY ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY

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GBP 10,800

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A CARVED MARBLE FIGURE OF MERCURY
AFTER BERTHEL THORVALDSEN, PROBABLY ITALIAN, 19TH CENTURY
Depicted seated on a tree-stump and holding a set of pan-pipes in his left hand and drawing a sword from a scabbard with his right; on an integrally carved marble plinth and tapering square marble-effect wood pedestal
32 in. (81.2 cm.) high; 80 in. (203.2 cm.) high, overall

Specialist note

The marble figure of Mercury offered here is a reduction of Bertel
Thorvaldsen's lifesize figure of Mercury about to Slay Argus dated to 1818 and housed in the Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen.