A PAIR OF BRONZE MODELS OF THE FURIETTI CENTAURS
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each mounted on red marble bases, with Greek inscriptions
14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) high, 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) wide (the bronze of the taller)
A PAIR OF BRONZE MODELS OF THE FURIETTI CENTAURS
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each mounted on red marble bases, with Greek inscriptions
14 ½ in. (36.8 cm.) high, 10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) wide (the bronze of the taller)
Carl von Hollitscher (1845-1925), Berlin and [possibly] sold, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Berlin, 25 May 1928, lot Victor Hahn, Berlin and sold Ball and Graupe, Berlin, 27 June 1932, lot 149 (as 16th century). Mount Street Galleries, London, 3 July 1979.
A. Donath, Catalogue of the Collection Hahn, Berlin, 1926, cat. nos. 61 and 62 and pl. 37. Italian Renaisssance Bronzes, exhibition catalogue, New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., 1980, p. 10. A. P. Rosenberg, Bronzes of the Italian Renaissance; Twenty-Two Unpublished Statuettes, New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., 1981, p. 35, no. 20, fig. 154-155. C. List, Kleinbronzen Europas: vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, Munich, 1983, pp. 201-202, figs. 152-153. A P. Rosenberg, Renaissance Bronzes and Later Sculpture, New York, Paul Rosenberg, 1984, cat. no. 34, pp. 79-81.
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