Sale 7388
London, South Kensington
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30 October 1996
Price realised
GBP 575
Estimate
A bronze figure of a man wrestling with a lion mounted on a variegated marble plinth, 19th century -- 7¼in. (18.5cm) high A similar figure, without the lion, is illustrated in Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum volume one, Nicholas Penny, Clarendon Press 1992, No's 243 and 244 See Illustration
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