Provenance:

According to past family history, purchased shortly after the 1908 earthquake, near Messina, Italy, for Islesbrook, Strafford, near Philadelphia, by Florence (Allan Edmunds) Heckscher.

Thence to her daughter, Rose-Marie de Foix Edmunds Chapman.  (Rose-Marie's husband Burnham Grosvenor Chapman (1911-1993) was a noted architect and preservationist in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.)

Thence by descent

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Each having a weathered surface, the heads and hindquarters with dirtier surface consistent with being used as supports for a bench with the seat resting on the central parts of the body. Each weighs approximately 150 pounds.

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