Description:
Galleria Fratelli Lapini (Italian, act. Late 19th Century)
Alabaster Bust of a Woman Personifying Night, the figure carved with her arms behind her head, and surrounded by stars and a crescent moon, mounted to a circular socle, the reverse inscribed "Gall. Flli. Lapini Firenze 1895," total ht. 25 in.
Estimate $800-1,200
Headdress with one star missing two points and the other star with slight abrasions to tips; slight scattered surface abrasions throughout; craze lines, mostly to area of the breast; socle with large break simply glued.
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