Good quality and rare pair of large late 19th Century Grand Tour Italian green serpentine marble ''Molossian Hounds'' modelled after the antique pair of original Roman sculptures in the Belvedere Court of the Vatican Museum in Rome. A similar single example known as the Hound of Alcibiades'' or the ‘Jennings Dog’ purchased by Henry Constantine Jennings in Rome in the 1750s can be seen in the British Museum. Rome circa 1890.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 experience; we only...