AN ITALIAN CARVED GREEN SERPENTINE MARBLE GROUP OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, late 19th century

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AN ITALIAN CARVED GREEN SERPENTINE MARBLE GROUP OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, late 19th century

After the Antique, the couple portrayed with wings, on circular base
24¾in. (63cm.) high

Lot Essay

There are two versions of the Cupid and Psyche group: the one in the capitoline Museum, Rome, shows the children without wings; the one in the Uffizi, Florence shows them with wings. See Haskell and Penny Taste and the Antique, Yale University Press 1981, p.190.

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