A PAIR OF ITALIAN POLYCHROME MARBLE OVER-LIFESIZE BUSTS, ON PEDESTALS, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

A PAIR OF ITALIAN POLYCHROME MARBLE OVER-LIFESIZE BUSTS, ON PEDESTALS
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Modelled as pendant figures, each with a white headdress inset with variant marble and alabaster stripes and with hoop earrings suspending lapis beads, the male figure wearing a portasanta marble fez and dressed in a white marble collar and green breccia tunic mounted with red and yellow marble cabochons, the female figure with a feather in her turban, the top of her head covered with a cap decorated with a crescent moon and star, her torso secured with a red marble belt and carved in imitation of fur; both figures raised on 'S'-scroll sided socles above spreading hexagonal bardiglio Capella marble pedestals veneered with red alabaster panels and carved with breccia corallina and giallo marble drapery, respectively
The male bust: 31 in. (79 cm.) high, and with pedestal: 78 in. (198 cm.) high, overall
The female bust: 30 ¼ in. (77 cm.) high, and with pedestal: 77 ¼ in. (196 cm.) high, overall

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Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A SOUTH AMERICAN COLLECTION (LOTS 568-577)