AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FEMALE BUST AND PEDESTAL, the bust by Quirino Tempra, the young woman shown looking slightly to her right, her hair tied in a chignon and wearing a beaded hair-band, with high collar and lace neckline, signed to the side, Q.Tempra Milano, on a circular socle and foot; with square-tapering white marble pedestal, the frieze carved with arches above outlined panels, with star and scroll carved base (chips to bust and pedestal), late 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FEMALE BUST AND PEDESTAL, the bust by Quirino Tempra, the young woman shown looking slightly to her right, her hair tied in a chignon and wearing a beaded hair-band, with high collar and lace neckline, signed to the side, Q.Tempra Milano, on a circular socle and foot; with square-tapering white marble pedestal, the frieze carved with arches above outlined panels, with star and scroll carved base (chips to bust and pedestal), late 19th Century
the bust: 23¼in. (59cm.) high
the pedestal: 11½in. (29.2cm.) square; 47in. (119.5cm.) high (2)

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Quirino Tempra was born in Rome in 1849. He exhibited marble busts and statuettes in London in 1884 and Berlin in 1888.

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