An Italian patinated bronze of the Bacchic Faun or 'Faun in Rosso Antico', after the Antique, probably Rome, first half 19th century, the grinning faun portrayed standing and nude for a draped goat's skin around his shoulders, raising a bunch of grapes with his right hand and holding a curved club in the other, flanked by a tree trunk with pan flute to one side, and with a goat leaning on a wicker basket to the other, on an integral octagonal plinth, 36cm high, 21cm wide The present model is a reduction of the Faun in Rosso Antico marble which was excavated before 1741 at Hadrian's Villa. The marble group was subsequently given to the Capitoline Museums by Pope Benedict XIV in 1746, where it was met with admiration. The workshop of Giovanni Zoffoli is known to have produced reductions of the Faun, and an example of very similar size and patination by this maker is at Anglesey Abbey. See Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, Yale, 1981, 39, fig. 111, pp. 213-15 Cf Christie's New York, 13 April 2016, lot 23.