AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A KNEELING CHERUB, by Pietrò Costa, his hair tied with a ribbon and leaning his head against his right hand and holding a wreath in his left hand, on a shaped naturalistic base signed COSTA (two toes to the left foot restored, the tips of his wings repaired, the right-hand wing lacking the uppermost tip), late 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A KNEELING CHERUB, by Pietrò Costa, his hair tied with a ribbon and leaning his head against his right hand and holding a wreath in his left hand, on a shaped naturalistic base signed COSTA (two toes to the left foot restored, the tips of his wings repaired, the right-hand wing lacking the uppermost tip), late 19th Century
20in. (51cm.) high

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Born in Genoa in 1849, Costa spent his youth in Florence and having obtained a pension later moved to Rome where he studied sculpture. There he carried out municipal commissions as well genre work, of which the present figure is a charming example. He died in 1901.

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