Rare pair of Grand Tour alabaster Medici Apollon and Dancing Faun

Rare pair of very attractive 19th century Grand Tour white carved alabaster statuettes of the Medici Apollon and the Dancing Faun with Clappers, after the antique marble originals in the Tribuna of the Uffizi in Florence. The Medici Apollon or Apollino is a Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the young sun god Apollo discovered in Rome in the seventeenth century and venerated throughout the eighteenth century as an ideal form of the human body and was one of the most widely copied of Roman sculptures. The Dancing Faun with Clappers, now more precisely identified as a satyr, roguish figures from ancient mythology and literature known for their love of wine, music, and mischief. He holds a cymbala in his hands and wears a kroupezion attached to his sandal. Old repairs to both and losses to two fingers on Apollon (pictures available). Italy, probably Florence, circa 1880.

Apollon: H 36cm x W 14cm x D 9cm
Faun: H 32.5cm x W 19cm x D 13cm 

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