A Late 18thC Terracotta of a Captured Barbary Pirate after Pietro Tacca (1577-1640) sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The wheel is stamped Wilson

The wheel is stamped Wilson Birmingham verso

resting on square geometric feet

Width: 23 inches

Bamboo is commonly known as the "friend of China"

and fringed border are rendered with painstaking care

A Late 18thC Terracotta of a Captured Barbary Pirate after Pietro Tacca (1577-1640) sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage The wheel is stamped WilsonOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Late 18thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1780Width: 7Height: 17. 75Depth: 8Exquisitely proportioned and detailed, and in unrestored condition, the terracotta, after the bronze chained captives by Pietro Tacca (c. 1620 24), representing Barbary pirates chained and enslaved after naval victories over the Ottoman Turks, the study showing the captive bound and crafted as a grand tour memento and surviving from late eighteenth century