Lot 82
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A NORTH ITALIAN MINIATURE FIGURE OF A LADY
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A NORTH ITALIAN MINIATURE FIGURE OF A LADY

CIRCA 1775, PERHAPS COZZI

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A NORTH ITALIAN MINIATURE FIGURE OF A LADY
CIRCA 1775, PERHAPS COZZI
Modelled seated and holding a basket of fruit, wearing a yellow bodice and iron-red striped skirt, on an extensive rockwork base beside a long scroll enriched in purple and moulded with ovolo ornament (restoration to her right arm and broken across front of base and repaired, two leaves lacking)
2¼ in. (5.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Dr. Andreina Torre, and thence by descent.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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Lot Essay

For the companion figure, see Raccolta di Porcellane Marino Nani Mocenigo, Venice, 1961, p. 19, no. 2 (illustrated on the front cover) for a figure emblematic of Astrology on a very similar type of base and of the same dimensions.

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