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ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCESCO ANTONIO FRANZONI (1734-1818)- A CARVED MARBLE GROUP OF FIGHTING DOGS EARLY 19TH CENTURY 18.5cm high, 32.5cm long, 20cm deep Francesco Antonio Franzoni trained in Carrara but moved to Rome in the mid 1760s where he specialised in the restoration of antiquities and creating new works often incorporating earlier elements for Europeans on the Grand Tour. As one of the principal restorers of antique sculture in Rome in the second half of the 18th century he worked for Pope Pius VI for whom he created a series of marble animal sculptures for a room in the Palazzetto del Belvedere.
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