Antique Cast Bronze Elephant Hunt Scene with Lion Antonio Amorgasti Belgium 1925 Paintings the top of the cabinet

the top of the cabinet is fitted with a single locking drawer with an oval brass lockplate (key is present)

Condition is very good

by Brocot & Delettrez

including the sculpture for the 2008 Golden Heart Award held at the Beverly Hills Hotel to honor Clancy Imislund for his contributions to the Midnight Mission

finished with another band of rosewood and a gilded bronze gallery

Antique Cast Bronze Elephant Hunt Scene with Lion Antonio Amorgasti Belgium 1925 Paintings the top of the cabinetA 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