A FINE BRONZE FIGURE OF A PACING HORSE

Details

A FINE BRONZE FIGURE OF A PACING HORSE
PADUAN OR VENETIAN, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

(replaced lower legs)-11in. (28cm.) high, 10in. (25½cm.) long, mounted on an ebonized base, olive brown patina with extensive black lacquer

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
F. Haskell and N. Penny Taste and the Antique, London, 1981, p. 236-240
N. Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, Vol. I: Italian Oxford, 1992, no. 118, p. 172-174

Lot Essay

This figure of Pacing Horse and those examples in the Ashmolean and Schloss Pommersfelden are derived from the antique horse on the viewer's right atop St. Mark's in Venice. This work is less defined in musculature, pattern of the collar and the breaks in the clipped mane than these other examples. The present figure is closer in facture to the example in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore which has been called Venetian, 16th Century.