Brought into the Epping saleroom of the Bonington auction house with a collection of Moorcroft, this Florentine Mannerist bronze sold for £150,000, writes Laura Chesters.
Catalogued as “The Abduction of a Sabine” and “possibly 18th century or earlier in the manner of Giambologna”, the nearly 20in (50cm) high bronze on a later base was estimated at just £300-500.