Lot Essay
A central figure among Florentine sculptors of the latter half of the nineteenth century, Pietrò Bazzanti (d. 1881) ran his own gallery, exhibiting and selling numerous works by himself and other sculptors.
BY PIETRO BAZZANTI AND FIGLIO, FLORENCE
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A pair of Italian white marble busts of Egyptian women, on green marble pedestals
By Pietro Bazzanti and Figlio, Florence
Each wearing an 'embroidered' headdress with shoulder length hair, one looking down wearing a headband of discs inscribed SOLAMITIDE, with a flower and laurel to her breasts, her companion also with embroidered headdress with winged eagle head wearing a disc headband and elaborated disc and link necklace, each carved with a hieroglyph, with flowers to her breasts, each on a green marble stepped socle with octagonal foot, on a pivoting green marble pedestal, with foliate-carved capital, on stepped octagonal foot, signed
24 in. and 25½ in. (61 cm. and 64.8 cm.) high The pedestals: 45½ in. and 46½ in. (115.5 cm. and 118 cm.) high (2)
By Pietro Bazzanti and Figlio, Florence
Each wearing an 'embroidered' headdress with shoulder length hair, one looking down wearing a headband of discs inscribed SOLAMITIDE, with a flower and laurel to her breasts, her companion also with embroidered headdress with winged eagle head wearing a disc headband and elaborated disc and link necklace, each carved with a hieroglyph, with flowers to her breasts, each on a green marble stepped socle with octagonal foot, on a pivoting green marble pedestal, with foliate-carved capital, on stepped octagonal foot, signed
24 in. and 25½ in. (61 cm. and 64.8 cm.) high The pedestals: 45½ in. and 46½ in. (115.5 cm. and 118 cm.) high (2)