AN ITALIAN PARCEL-GILT ALABASTER FIGURE OF CLEOPATRA, by G. Gambogi,the queen seated on a lion, wearing a gilt royal vulture headband, gilt necklaces, bracelets and sandals, a serpent arm band on her left arm, her head resting on her right hand, naked to the waist, a long skirt falling to the ground with a jewelled waist band, on a mottled yellow and umber alabaster stepped base, decorated with hieroglyphics, signed G. Gambogi, circa 1900