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An Italian carved marble bust of Isis
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An Italian carved marble bust of Isis

19TH CENTURY

Details
An Italian carved marble bust of Isis
19th century
Modelled with top-knot of hair, with possible later re-carving, mounted on grey-veined white marble socle
20¾in. (52.7cm.) high
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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Nicholas Penny, European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day, Clarendon Press 1992, volume III, p.95. Joseph Gott (1786-1860) carved a comparable bust of Isis after the original version in the Sala dei Busti of the Museo Pio-Clementino in the Vatican. Gott's version was probably acquired in Rome in 1851 by C.D.E Fortnum.

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