Antique Italian Marble Woman in Bronze Chair Sculpture After Antonio Frilli 14"

Description

Late 19th - early 20th century carved marble sculpture in the shape of a Neoclassical woman seated in a bronze Savonarola style chair, mounted on a slab of green and black marble. Surface of plith marked Italy. After Antonio Frilli and Emilio Fiaschi.

Antonio Frilli (1860-1920)
In 1883, Frilli established his first and exclusive Atelier in via dei Fossi, Florence, where he worked with a few assistants on medium-size refined painted alabasters and big white Carrara marble statues for private villas and monumental cemeteries. His works decorate famous cemeteries such as Porte Sante and Allori in Florence.[1] A marble portrait of Frilli was carved in his Atelier after his death, and it was placed on his family tomb in Cimitero degli Allori.

Frilli and his gallery were well known in Europe, the United States and Australia, as he took part in several world's fair exhibitions. He was in Philadelphia for the Centennial Exposition of 1876, and in 1881 his statues and garden furniture were exhibited in the Italian Pavilion in Melbourne, Australia.

Emilio P. Fiaschi (Italian 1858 – 1941)
Italian sculptor and an attendant of the prestigious Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. He worked with Carrara marble and was known for his ability depict a wide range of textures, despite the rigid quality of marble. He sculpted classic and genre scenes, as well as portraits of woman.

Condition

Good overall - past repair to legs of figure

Dimensions

9.25" x 7" x 14" (WIdth x Depth x Height)