A PAIR OF ITALIAN MARBLE BUSTS OF DANTE AND BEATRICE, by F. Vichi, both with faces carved of white marble and with shoulders of rouge marble, Dante also with a rouge marble cap, each on a sienna marble base decorated with a bronze relief scene, Beatrice with a relief showing her first encounter with Dante in Florence, Dante with a relief showing him writing in exile from Florence, each signed on the shoulder F. Vichi Firenze (shoulders extensively damaged), late 19th Century