A PAIR OF CARVED BOXWOOD CENTAURS

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

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A PAIR OF CARVED BOXWOOD CENTAURS
GERMAN, 18TH CENTURY

Each on a later ebonised wooden pedestal.
Four fingers of the male centaur's right hand lacking; damages; restorations.
10 7/8 and 11½in. (27.6 and 29.2cm.) high, the figures
17½ and 18½in. (44.4 and 47cm.) high, overall (2)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique - The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London, 1981, pp. 178-9, no. 20, figs. 91-2

拍品專文

The two Centaurs, which are now in the Musei Capitolini in Rome, are reported to have been found in December 1736 during the excavations carried out by Monsignor Furietti at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. The appeal of the statues, not least on account of their being a pair, was very considerable. Most of the copies were in bronze or marble (Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.); another oddity of the present pair is that the younger is clearly female.