Antique Cast Bronze Elephant Hunt Scene with Lion Antonio Amorgasti Belgium 1925 Paintings To the base are twin

To the base are twin gilt bronze candle sconces with acanthus leaf decoration

by Brocot & Delettrez

5 cm X 64 cm X 7

finished with another band of rosewood and a gilded bronze gallery

Antique Cast Bronze Elephant Hunt Scene with Lion Antonio Amorgasti Belgium 1925 Paintings To the base are twinA large antique Animalier bronze sculpture group: lion hunting with elephants by Antonio Amorgasti 1880 1942, Belgium, titled "Mahout", circa 1925. The term "Mahout" is a Hindu word for an elephant driver or elephant keeper. This large cast bronze group depicts an elephant with her infant below, atop the elephant is her driver seated on a lion's pelt with the driver's ankus (a tool with a long handle & sharp metal point used by a Mahout to direct the