'Torch Dancer', a silvered bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing only silver knickerbockers patterned with flowers, poised on one leg with head arched back, arms held aloft holding two torches, on faceted tapering green and black onyx base, signed in the bronze (replacement torches) -- 43cm. high

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'Torch Dancer', a silvered bronze and ivory figure, cast and carved from a model by Ferdinand Preiss, of a young girl wearing only silver knickerbockers patterned with flowers, poised on one leg with head arched back, arms held aloft holding two torches, on faceted tapering green and black onyx base, signed in the bronze (replacement torches) -- 43cm. high
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