Rare 19th century Grand Tour Italian patinated bronze Discophorus. Typical Roman attractive green black patination to the bronze. Representing an idealised athlete carrying a disc: a young, muscular, solidly-built athlete in a moment of thought before throwing a discus. The original, now lost, is believed to be by the Greek sculptor Naucydes in the 4th century BC. Two Roman marble copies remain from the 1st–2nd century AD in the Louvre and the Pio-Clementino Museum in the Vatican in Rome. Presented on an elegant green Levanto carved marble circular base. Lovely example. Italy, probably Rome, circa 1860.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 influ...