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    Sale 7388

    Carpets, Decorative Objects and Furniture

    London, South Kensington

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    30 October 1996

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    Lot 11

    A bronze figure of a man wrestling with a lion

    Price realised

    GBP 575

    Estimate

    GBP 500 - GBP 800

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    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
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