Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics

Classic Design: Furniture, Silver & Ceramics

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An Italian Gilt-Bronze Model of the Furietti Centaur, Attributed to Giovanni Giacomo Zoffoli (1745-1805), Rome, Circa 1765

Lot Closed

October 17, 05:06 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Italian Gilt-Bronze Model of the Furietti Centaur, Attributed to Giovanni Giacomo Zoffoli (1745-1805), Rome, Circa 1765


height 21 ½ in.; width 15 in.; depth 7 in.

52 cm; 38 cm; 18 cm

L'Antiquaire & The Connoisseur, New York

Comparative Literature:

H. Honour, 'Bronze Statuettes by Giacomo and Giovanni Zoffoli', The Connoisseur, Nov. 1961, pp. 198-205.

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 178-179, no. 20, figs. 91-2.

Two large Roman carved marble centaur figures (AD 117-138) were excavated by Giuseppe Furietti at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, in 1736. They were first displayed at the Capitoline Museum in June 1765 and subsequently copied in plaster casts and in bronze for travelers on the Grand Tour.

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