Itemnumber: 941

Boy with goose fountain

Great 19th century cast iron fountain depicting a very young boy with a goose, one of many copies of a Greek Hellenistic bronze original (160 BC?) attributed to Boethus. Found in Rome in 1789 and transferred to the palais Braschi, then sold 1812 to Munich and now there in the Glyptothek. Boethus was noted for his representations of children. The goose was the sacred bird of Aphrodite.



Origin: France
Period:  19th Century
Materials: cast iron
L 27.8" x D 17.7" x H 35.8"

Price:  12,000.00 EUR