Grand Tour Bronze Dancing Faun of Pompeii

Grand Tour Bronze Dancing Faun of PompeiiAn exquisite 'Grand Tour' bronze figure of The Dancing Faun from Pompeii, after the original excavated at Pompeii in 1830, by the Sommer Foundry of Naples Italy, second half of the 19th century Superb quality, original patination. Why we like it Exquisitely sculpted for its miniature size, with beautiful patination. Coveted by the 19th century intellectuals and aesthetes, such exquisite objects were not mere decorations, but symbols of their owner's

and decorated with gilt brass mounts

raised on a turned column with gilt gadrooned collar to the bottom

Adolphe Mathis (Monegasque

this elegant library fireside armchair has a Grecian lyre-scrolled frame

totalling £20

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from the Duke of Buccleuch's collection

A rare and superbly decorative set of three Chinese export black lacquer boxes

Possibly supplied to John

on slender

in the manner of Marsh and Tatham

flanked by the waisted uprights