Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Sculpture The inkwell is of cylindrical

The inkwell is of cylindrical shape with a domed shaped lid with dot shaped silver and copper inlay in a stylized floral form

plus a model number written by hand in red

the stem and top of the candlestick is decorated with a blue

5 cm X 40 cm)

Puerto Rico) Painting of a Nude Male

Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Sculpture The inkwell is of cylindricalA 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