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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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AN ITALIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED COMPOSITION FIGURE OF AMERICA
Early 19th Century
Under a glass dome, the allegorical figure of a America as a bare-breasted native with her foot on the head of an alligator, with a similarly dressed boy holding a shell in his hand, in a rocky landscape, on a molded flaring base carved with beading, and draped with flowering branches, on acanthus leaf-sheathed feet
19in. (49.5cm.) high, 12in. (31.5cm.) diameter
Early 19th Century
Under a glass dome, the allegorical figure of a America as a bare-breasted native with her foot on the head of an alligator, with a similarly dressed boy holding a shell in his hand, in a rocky landscape, on a molded flaring base carved with beading, and draped with flowering branches, on acanthus leaf-sheathed feet
19in. (49.5cm.) high, 12in. (31.5cm.) diameter
Provenance
The collection of the first wife of Jacques Kugel, Lisbon.