The infant Hercules takes £29,000 at Norfolk salvage sale
Whilst perhaps better known for selling reclaimed building materials, T.W. Gaze of Diss in Norfolk consistently attract lots of a more decorative nature in their five architectural sales each year. Their August 16 sale included this very fine quality early 18th century marble study of a boy holding aloft a bearded mask.
The 2ft (60cm) high unsigned piece - thought to represent the infant Hercules with the head of Holof…