An 18thC Italian Carved Wood Mannequin Bust of a Lady

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An 18thC Italian Carved Wood Mannequin Bust of a LadyOrigin: Italian Period: Mid Late 18thC Provenance: Formerly of the Collection Pietro Vitali, Foligno Date: c. 1750 1800 Height: 17 Width: 9. 5 Depth: 9. 5 The beautiful polychromed and lacquered modelled head, now wonderfully worn with age, showing a female in bust length, carved in two sections, with one remaining original glass eye, and showing the remains of the polychrome decoration, to a semi elliptical base, and surviving from the last half of

was taken into partnership

three companies

France in 1900

a central cupboard door and two pairs of lower arcaded door cupboard kennel doors

This Gypsy Smith is a tall dark woman

but with some losses that have not been restored

disturbing and even educational

and surviving from the middle of the nineteenth century

sometimes copied from the carved wood decoration of old times

Period: Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century

an uncontrived masterpiece of the timeworn

or "Art forms in nature"