Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this Grand Tour Serpentine Boar to the 19th Century.
Raised on an integral plinth base
19.5 x 21 x 13cm inclusive of base
The Porcellino is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar. The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) around 1634, following a Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in the classical section of the Uffizi Museum. The original, which was found in Rome and moved to Florence in the mid-16th century by the Medici, was associated from the time of its rediscovery with the Calydonian Boar of Greek myth.
Kendall House Antiques Ltd. has dated this Grand Tour Serpentine Boar to the 19th Century.
Kendall house antiques a traditional shop in the north cotswold’s market town of chipping campden.
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Grand Tour - After the Antique, an Italian Late 19th Century Carved Serpentine Marble Model of the Florentine Boar
