A pair of German silver figural models, Philipp Kusel, Augsburg,...

each on an oval base with gadrooned borders, one modelled as Hercules slaying the Lernaean Hydra (after the model by Adriaen de Vries), his club raised and his body draped in a robe, the other depicting the Rape of the Sabines, each with flat back, the second engraved with a coat-of-arms below a coronet, each marked with town and maker's mark twice

62cm, 24⅜in. high

Provenance:
Hercules slaying the Lernaean Hydra:

Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 May 1994, lot 161

The Rape of the Sabines:

Sotheby's, Geneva, 22 October 1993, lot 188 (catalogued as gilt and depicting Pluto carrying off Proserpine)

Both sculptures:

From Roentgen to Fabergé: a European private collection, Christie's, London, 20 May 2015, lot 25