Bronze group after the ancient The Farnese Bull, bronze cast, hand finished and finely chased, with original patina, after the ancient marble sculpture on the National Museum in Naples; on wooden ebonised base with pietra dura bird panels.
Litt.: The Farnese Bull is a massive sculpture attributed to the Rhodian artists Apollonius of Tralles and his brother Tauriscus. It is widely consisidered the largest single sculpture ever recovered from antiquity. The original produced in Rhodes was transported to Rome, as Pliny the Elder reports. It shows the history of Dirce, Amphion and Zethus. Amphion became a great singer and musician after Hermes taught him to play and gave him a golden lyre, Zethus a hunter and herdsman. They punished King Lycus and Queen Dirce for cruel treatment of Antiope, their mother, whom they had treated as a slave. Dirce was tied to the horns of a bull as revenge. 
A Roman copy of the sculpture was found in 1546 in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. It is now located at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli in Naples.
There have been made serveral reductions from the original. The earliest and most famous by Antonio Susini (1558–1624). Signs of age, minor scratches.

total height 68cm, figure height 43cm, width 38cm