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Hercules and Mercury, a pair of impressive large polychromed wooden telamons, Northern Italy, 17th C.
1089
This lot was sold on 2022-05-14 and is no longer available
H.: 193,5 cm (incl. stands)
H.: 169 cm (the figures)
In architecture, telamons are colossal male figures used as columns. These are also called atlas, atlantes, or atlantids, the male versions of caryatids.
Provenance: A Dutch private collection.