A rare 18th century Italian Grand Tour patinated bronze of The Infant Hercules Strangling Two Serpents, after the antique 1st century AD original marble statue now housed in the Tribuna, Uffizi, Florence. Another version from the same period but a fountain can be seen in the Hermitage in St Petersburg. Typically rough 18th century casting with a dark almost black patination mounted on a later early 19th century Sienna marble block base.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, beautiful items and upload to our site regularly. We are first and foremost antique collectors with over thirty years of ex...