A pair of Italian alabaster figures of children

BY FERDINANDO VICHI, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A pair of Italian alabaster figures of children
By Ferdinando Vichi, Late 19th Century
One a boy, the other a young girl, each seated on rocks with a begging bowl, each inscribed F. Vichi Firenze, the boy also inscribed E. Barbielli; on a verde antico marble pedestal, with circular stepped top, above a spirally-fluted tapering column, on spreading foot and octagonal base
The figures: 23¾ in. and 24 in. (60.3 cm. and 61 cm.) high
The pedestals: 44 in. (111.7 cm.) high (4)

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