Large, late 19th century Grand Tour very dense alabaster, or possibly marble, library sculpture of the Pancrastinae or Wrestlers after the 1st century AD Roman copy in the Medici collection in the Tribuna of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, itself a copy of the lost Greek original from the 3rd century BC. Beautifully carved with a real sense of movement and power. The two young athletes, bodies crossed engaged in the pankration an ancient type of wrestling. Super quality, heavy example with real presence. Integral kidney shaped base. Italian, circa 1880.Based in London, we are dealers in fine decorative antiques from the 18th and 19th centuries. We specialise in this era of enlightenment, neoclassicism and the Grand Tour, with its far reaching influence on style and taste in Britain, Continental Europe and beyond: elegance in the age of Napoleon. Our extensive stock covers all aspects of this period and decorative antiques influenced by the period. We constantly source new, beautifu...