Spinario – “Boy With The Thorn” Bonded Marble Replica Figurine Gift Card Petersburg

Petersburg

We have rarely come across porcelain like this

Combine this item with one of our Royal Vale Gold Chintz Tea Plates to form a beautiful Tea Trio

The lid is pearl white satin lined while the spoons rest on green felt

Spinario – “Boy With The Thorn” Bonded Marble Replica Figurine Gift Card PetersburgBoy with Thorn, also called Fedele (Fedelino) or Spinario, is a Greco Roman Hellenistic bronze sculpture of a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot, now in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome. There is a Roman marble version of this subject from the Medici collections in a corridor of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. The item is a replica figurine which is of a smaller scale than the original, a bronze statue cast by Agasius in 100BC and later