Superb quality 19th century Grand Tour patinated bronze bust of the mythological god Dionysus, the Philosopher Plato, or as some archaeologists have suggested, even Zeus himself. The identity of this bust remains unclear to this day. Beautifully cast and chased. The original, now housed in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, was discovered by the Swiss archaeologist Karl Weber around 1750 during his excavations in the Villa dei Papiri, near Herculaneum. Signed G. Pollice Napoli for the bronze workshop of Giuseppe Pollice. Italian circa 1870.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 ...