A Pair of Monumental Bronze & Gilt Bronze Figures of Atlas 93" Height. 20TH CENTURY, THE STANDS MODERN. Depicted standing and holding either a terrestrial globe or a celestial globe on his shoulders, his hands resting at his hips on a square plinth, each raised on a brown-painted and parcel-gilt mahogany paneled pedestal with fluted frieze below a Latin-inscribed panel and a stepped molded plinth. The statues 52" (132 cm.) high, 93" (236 cm.) high overall, 19.3/4" (50 cm.) square (2). A similar pair sold at Christies New York for $91,000.