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A MATCHED PAIR OF ITALIAN BRONZE FURIETTI CENTAURS
Lot 175

A MATCHED PAIR OF ITALIAN BRONZE FURIETTI CENTAURS

LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed29 January 2013

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A MATCHED PAIR OF ITALIAN BRONZE FURIETTI CENTAURS
LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY
After the Antique, mounted on giallo marble plinths and wood bases
8¾ in. (22.5 cm.) and 8 in. (20 cm.) high (2)

Christies, South Kensington, Property of the Loyd Collection, 26 February 2008, lot 158.

Specialist note

The 1st Century bronze originals of this pair of centaurs, which were themselves copies of a 2nd Century B.C. Hellenistic pair, were found together at Hadrian's villa in Tivoli by Monsignor Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti in 1736. After his death they were sold by the family and have been in the Capitoline Museums since.