Seated female figure holding an orb and a bird, bronze, Northern Italian, 16thC or 17thC
Description
Small bronze statuette of a female figure, in classical dress, seated, with her righ leg raised and crossed over her left, , her lfet arm rasied from the lebow to her left breast, her right arm enclosing a bird, possibly a swan or a peacock, her hari braided and head turned slightly to the left, mounted on a brightly coloured square marble base, the lower portion missing.Traces of original gilding.
On display?
Yes
Simple name
Sculpture
Subject
Figure
Dimensions
regular: 5.5cm (h) x 5.5cm (l) x 14.0cm (w)
Hebe
Northern Italian
Bronze, sixteenth or seventeenth century; marble base, nineteenth century
C866
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