Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Recently Added in excellent condition

in excellent condition

England and The United States

having three oval hinged doors with hardstone Pietra Dura floral inlay

the figures in Greco-Roman dress and having a band of icons from antiquity below

The table is supported on a tapered pedestal/ hemispherical base and is raised on a platform terminating to four scrolled feet

Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Recently Added in excellent conditionA good antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze and marble bust of Dante Alighieri, circa 1880. The bronze is most likely Florentine and modeled as the 13th century Italian Poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri (1265 1321), the writer of one of literatures most important works, "The Divine Comedy". The bronze was created by the lost wax method and sits on the original and substantial variegated marble plinth. Condition is very good. Mounted: 16" tall