Antique marble bust sculpture with column signed A.Frilli

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Important ancient sculpture in precious white Carrara marble complete with a column dating back to the same period. Bust of a child signed at the back by the Florentine artist Antonio Frilli dated around the last decades of the nineteenth century. Frilli is an important nineteenth-century sculptor known not only for his Atelier in Florence but also in Europe, the United States and Australia, for his presence at many exhibitions and fairs worldwide. He was present at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition; in 1881 his statues and garden furniture were exhibited in the Italian pavilion in Melbourne, Australia. Curiosity: In 1904, two years after Frilli's death, his son Umberto participated in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, where one of his father's works, a sculpture of a woman in a hammock (Nude Sleeping in a Hammock) made of white Carrara marble, won the Grand Prize and six gold medals. In 1999, the same piece was sold by Sotheby's at an estimated $800,000 auction. In 2013 the author Gary Rinehart published Nude Sleeping in a Hammock, a fictional tale about the owners of the statue since 1892 and how this sculpture influenced their fate. Our work is a beautiful portrait bust of a delightful and smiling little girl, the girl extends her arms towards the viewer and the central hole probably left by the artist to store fresh flowers almost as if to create a link between the real world and the work. The high artistic quality is clearly evident in the attention to detail from the face to the clothes is clear the hand of a great sculptor.

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