Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks & The Age of Oak - 1st October 2025
Lot 665
A GLAZED TERRACOTTA GROUP OF HERCULES AND THE NEMEAN LION
Estimate £400 - £600
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Description
A GLAZED TERRACOTTA GROUP OF HERCULES AND THE NEMEAN LION
IN THE MANNER OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA FOGGINI (1652-1725), FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
with an off-white glaze
23cm high, 18.5cm wide, 16cm deep
Catalogue Note
Giovanni Battista Foggini was the leading sculptor at the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany during the end of the 17th century. For a related terracotta group of Sleeping Endymion by Agostino Cornacchini and a porcelain example by Carlo Ginori of the Doccia factory see Bruce Boucher, Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova, pp.234-237. figs. 63 & 64.