AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A CHAINED SLAVE-GIRL, by Piò Fedi, shown standing and looking to her right, her long hair falling to her shoulders and down her back, nude to her chest with her hands crossed and bound at the wrists by chained manacles, with drapery falling from her waist, on a naturalistic rocky base, signed PIO FEDI SCOLPI (some chain links broken), late 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A CHAINED SLAVE-GIRL, by Piò Fedi, shown standing and looking to her right, her long hair falling to her shoulders and down her back, nude to her chest with her hands crossed and bound at the wrists by chained manacles, with drapery falling from her waist, on a naturalistic rocky base, signed PIO FEDI SCOLPI (some chain links broken), late 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A CHAINED SLAVE-GIRL, by Piò Fedi, shown standing and looking to her right, her long hair falling to her shoulders and down her back, nude to her chest with her hands crossed and bound at the wrists by chained manacles, with drapery falling from her waist, on a naturalistic rocky base, signed PIO FEDI SCOLPI (some chain links broken), late 19th Century
52in. (132cm.) high

Lot Essay

Piò Fedi (1816-1892) was originally apprenticed to a jeweller in Florence and later worked for a copperplate engraver in Vienna. On his return to Florence he studied sculpture. He exhibited in Rome and established a reputation for his religious statuary. He also sculpted neo-classical and genre figures such as The Rape of Policene and The Florentine.

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