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    One flame candle holder putto made of gilded wood. Those kind of objects were present in churches or noble villas, specially during the Baroque times. The base is not coeval.
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  • Salvatore Albano signed dated 19th century figurative italian marble sculpture
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  • Tuscan Neoclassical Mythological Figurative objet d'art alabaster bronze
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  • 1930s bronze faun child signed at base
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    The small bronze depicts a small seated faun, immortalized while playing a wind instrument as can be clearly seen by the puffy cheeks. is signed at the base R. Castagnino and is from...
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    1930s Figurative Sculptures

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  • Signed Bruno Innocenti Female Nude Sculpture Relief 20 century plaster wood
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    The bass-relief is made of plaster painted with the warm color tone of the earth in order to represent terracotta. The subject is a juvenile girl, as we can see by the tenderness and...
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    This terracotta represents a mythological scene, in which we can see a centaur kissing with passion a lady, while a man is playing the Pan flute. On the back...
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