A BRONZE FIGURE OF A TURKEY
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JOHN GAINES (LOTS 538 - 549)
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A TURKEY

AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, 17TH CENTURY OR LATER

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A TURKEY
AFTER GIAMBOLOGNA, 17TH CENTURY OR LATER
Depicted with ruffled feathers and tail, on a later verde antico marble base
12 in. (31 cm.) high

拍品专文

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
C. Avery, Giambologna: the Complete Sculpture, Oxford, 1987, pp. 154 - 155.
C. Avery, Giambologna: An Exhibition of Sculpture by the Master and His Followers, From the Collection of Michael Hall, Esq., New York, 1998, pp.131 - 133.

This reduction is based on Giambologna's full-scale bronze of c. 1567 from the grotto of the Villa Medici -- one of the earliest representations of the turkey -- now in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence.