AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE GROUP OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, by A. Batacchi, the naked goddess with long hair tied at the back of her neck, with drapery falling from her waist, her hands bound by a flower chain held by the winged Cupid at her feet, on a naturalistic rocky base carved with foliage, signed A. Batacchi. Florence, on a circular stepped plinth and on a liver-coloured variegated marble pedestal, with a circular stepped black marble capital above a cylindrically-turned shaft, on a stepped circular base with square foot (Psyche's fingers restored, chip to plinth)late 19th Century

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AN ITALIAN WHITE MARBLE GROUP OF CUPID AND PSYCHE, by A. Batacchi, the naked goddess with long hair tied at the back of her neck, with drapery falling from her waist, her hands bound by a flower chain held by the winged Cupid at her feet, on a naturalistic rocky base carved with foliage, signed A. Batacchi. Florence, on a circular stepped plinth and on a liver-coloured variegated marble pedestal, with a circular stepped black marble capital above a cylindrically-turned shaft, on a stepped circular base with square foot (Psyche's fingers restored, chip to plinth)late 19th Century

the group: 47in. (119.4cm.) high
the pedestal: 44¼in. (112.4cm.) high; 16in. (40.6cm.) deep at top; 19½in. (49.5cm.) square at base

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An identical group by this sculptor was sold in these Rooms 28 October 1983, lot 185.

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