A GILT-BRONZE FEMALE FIGURE

VENETIAN, 17TH CENTURY

细节

A GILT-BRONZE FEMALE FIGURE
VENETIAN, 17TH CENTURY
Depicted with her left hand outstretched and her right hand clutching her draped costume, on an integrally-cast square base and a later ebonized wooden socle
5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) high, 8¼ in. (21 cm.) high on base

拍品专文

This figure almost certainly would have been for a collector's cabinet, and installed in a niche as the front is meticulously chased and the back less so. These cabinets, often representing the collector's cabinets, or Kunstkammers in miniature, would have held the man-made and natural curiosities so treasured by collectors from the Renaissance through the 19th century. She probably represented a virtue or saint, and would have been part of a larger iconography of the cabinet.