ATTRIBUTED TO LUIGI AVOLIO (20th CENTURY) River gods Naples, first half of the 20th century Silver and ormolu H. 28 cm, W. 22 cm H. 26 cm, W. 22 cm Luigi Avolio was a master founder and chiseller whose masterpieces mainly depict the "Allegory of the Waters". Our model, treated in the antique manner, depicts two seated men pouring water, resting on a chased and gilded bronze terrace with a curved shape on four silver feet. He probably belonged to the same family clan as Eugenio Avolio (1876-1929), also a founder with a similar iconographic repertoire. These two sculptures of river gods were inspired by the work of 17th-century Italian sculptors such as Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) and Antoine Coysevox (1640- 1720), whose personifications of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers adorn the parterre d'eau in the gardens of the Château de Versailles.