AFTER THE ANTIQUE, A LARGE PAIR OF BRONZE FIGURES OF THE FURIETTI CENTAURS ITALIAN, EARLY TO MID 19TH CENTURY Modelled after the Francesco Righetti model without supporting tree trunks, now mounted on blue granite plinth bases 66cm high including the plinth base, the bases 40cm wide, 20.5cm deep, the figures approximately 50cm high Literature: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, Yale 1982, page 178. The original Centaurs were discovered during excavations (conducted by Monsignor Furietti) at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli on the outskirts of Rome in 1736. They were acquired by Pope Clement XIII from Furietti's heirs and placed in the Capitoline Museum. Bronze reproductions were made by famous 18th century bronze foundries such as those established by Righetti and Zofolli to cater for demand from Grand Tourists. Their decorative appeal to the Georgians was enhanced by the fact that they were a classical, symmetrical pair. An 18th example from the Righetti workshop can be seen in the V&A collection (Accession number: 979-1882).

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