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Pair of Firedog Bases

Anonymous, Italian school
16th cent.
Pair of Firedog Bases
Italy, ca. 1530s
Bronze.
AZ024.1-2
Provenance
Léopold Goldschmidt (1830-1904), Paris; Durlacher Brothers, London; from whom purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1904 (as Sansovino).
Summary
Fire dogs surmounted by limbless female torsos whose shoulders and bodies terminate in acanthus foliage. A shield, from which the arms have been effaced is suspended from a ribbon around the neck of each. Each one sits on marble base. The base has a hole where the back of the object fits in.
Classification
Department