Fine Art & Antiques Saturday 23 October 2021, at 10am

ELSTOB & ELSTOB Fine Art & Antiques 23 October 2021, at 10am 271 AFTER THE ANTIQUE,A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF THE BORGHESE GLADIATOR, heroically nude, his left arm extended forward, his right hand drawn back clenching a sword hilt, on a rectangular base. 47.5cm high Note: Found before 1611 in the present territory of Anzio south of Rome, amongst the ruins of a seaside palace of Nero, the Borghese Gladiator is now held at the Louvre in Paris. It is now thought that from the attitude of the figure the work more probably represents not a gladiator, but a warrior contending with a mounted combatant. In the days when antique sculptures gained immediacy by being identified with specific figures from history or literature, Friedrich Thiersch, the 18th/19th century German classical scholar conjectured that it was intended to represent Achilles fighting with the mounted Amazon, Penthesilea £200.00-£300.00 272 FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE (FRENCH, 1810-1892),A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZEVASES, PARIS, LATE 19TH CENTURY,AFTER THE MODEL BY CLAUDE-MICHEL CLODION, converted to lamps, raised on fluted black marble plinth bases, each engraved F. BARBEDIENNE. (2) 67cm high overall £700.00-£900.00 273 MANNER OF FRANÇOIS DUQUESNOY (FLEMISH, 1597-1643),AN IVORY FIGURE OF A PUTTO, CIRCA 1680, the figure reclining to the left, holding a drape, on an ebonised plinth. Ivory 5cm high, overall 10cm high £1,000.00-£2,000.00