Was reminded of this statue from my mother's post from her Rhode Island trip. I never did go into the Louvre and see their dishes. Maybe next time.
BTW, that's a lion killing a crocodile. Ozzie is very jealous and he wants you all to know that he would have done the same thing. Only quicker.
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I thought I trained you better. You should always go to see the dishes!
They had the identical statue as your picture at the Elms close to the one that Mom has a picture of in her entry. Lion killing a croc. Interesting. I wonder what the symbolism means.
One thing about all of the mansions in Newport is that they copy heavily from Louis XV and XVI styles. Lots of Italian marble. It would have been nice if there was some unique, American flavor to the architecture..
I googled around for the symbolism and came up empty. It looks like there was a French period of naturalism in sculpture where they sculpted a bunch of animals fighting. This particular piece is actually a tiger and it was sculpted by Auguste Cain.
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