Spike extractor (Spinario) bronze, patinated. Round foundry mark "GUSS SCHWAB Münster". Cast at the end of the 20th century; fully sculpted, large depiction after antiquity. The thorn extractor is sitting on a boulder (or tree stump), his left leg bent over his right thigh. He holds the instep of the left foot with his left hand and pulls an invisible thorn out of the sole of the foot with his right. The head is tilted over the foot. The hair is finely coiffed and falls in strands to either side. The model for the present bronze is the famous so-called "Capitoline Thorn Puller" made of bronze in the Conservatorial Palace of the Capitoline Museums in Rome (1st century to around 100 AD, without plinth approx. 73 cm high). Bronze h. 76 cm; stone plinth 14.5 cm x 70 cm x 70 cm. Patinated bronze. Foundry stamp "GUSS SCHWAB Münster". Late 20th C. cast. After the ancient Roman bronze sculpture in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Capitoline Museums), Rome.