A pair of large 19th century bronze models of the Marly Horses after Guillaume Coustou (French, 1677 - 1746), 56cm high, raised on later bespoke ebonised wooden plinth stands,108cm high.

NB: King Louis XV commissioned the original monumental Carrara marble statues in 1739, and they were completed and installed at the Chateau de Marly in 1745, workers later moved the statues to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in 1794 during the French Revolution, the sculptures later moved to the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1984 to protect them from weather damage.

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