PROBABLY MADE BY THE NAPLES FIRM J. CHIURAZZI & FILS., LATE 19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF DISCOBOLUS
PROBABLY MADE BY THE NAPLES FIRM J. CHIURAZZI & FILS., LATE 19TH CENTURY
On seperately cast rectangular base
28 cm. high
Together with another Italian bronze statue of Discobolus on marble plinth, 35 cm. high (2)

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Lot Essay

This figure is copied from a Roman bronze excavated at Herculaneum in 1754, which in itself, was probably copied from a Greek original. The Naples firm of J.Chiurazzi & Fils specialised in bronze reproductions of objects excavated at Pompeii and Herculaneum and this model appears in their catalogue of 1900 as No.7- Discobole

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