Lot 618

STUDIO OF ANTONIO FRILLI (ITALIAN FL.1880 - 1910), CARVED ALABASTER BUST
LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY




Auction: Day Two: 17 November 2022 | From 10:00
£1,008
Description
modelled as a smiling young girl with long curled hair, wearing a wide lace brimmed bonnet, a pleated slip dress with a posey and a thin chain necklace around her neck, the back signed 'Galleria A. Frilli, Firenze', on a circular socle base
Dimensions
32cm wide, 54cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Formerly at Letterfourie, Morayshire, and by descent, through the Gordon family
Footnote
Note: The prolific gallery run by Antonio Frilli produced a variety of commercial sculptures in alabaster and marble, reflecting the pinnacle of fashionable taste of his time. He is first recorded as an exhibitor at the Espozione Nazionale di Roma in 1883, and he further exhibited in Glasgow in 1888 and Paris in 1889



