A PAIR OF PATINATED BRONZE FIGURES OF CENTAURS

AFTER THE FURIETTI CENTAURS, 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF PATINATED BRONZE FIGURES OF CENTAURS
After the Furietti Centaurs, 20th Century
One of a young centaur holding a club, the second of a bearded centaur with tied-hands wearing a lion skin, on rectangular green marble base and rectangular panelled yellow marbleized plinths
one: 76in. (195cm.) high, 36in. (93cm.) wide; the other: 72in. (185cm.) high, 36in. (93cm.) wide (2)

拍品專文

These bronzes are modelled after the antique originals excavated by Monsignor Furietti at Hadian's Villa in December 1736. Pope Clement XIII purchased the antiquities from Furietti's heirs in 1765 for the Capitoline Museum where they have since remained.