Antique Cast Bronze Elephant Hunt Scene with Lion Antonio Amorgasti Belgium 1925 Paintings Oil on canvas painting depicting

Oil on canvas painting depicting a woman with two cherubs in a garden

The vase is hand decorated with naturalistic motifs of gazelles and traditional vibrantly colored floral designs with black line-work outlines

the tall back with five fielded panels

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

there is an engraved gold tag to the underside

Antique Cast Bronze Elephant Hunt Scene with Lion Antonio Amorgasti Belgium 1925 Paintings Oil on canvas painting depictingA 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