Antique Large Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Carved Statue Sculpture "Psyche" by Oreste Ferrari, 1880 Redo The Smithsonian New York

The Smithsonian New York

one scene shows a bird with an Ikebana (the Japanese art of arranging leaves & flowers in vessels)

The use of specimen woods as a decorative feature in furniture of this type was distinctive to Galle District of Ceylon

by the celebrated Italian artist Marino Marini (1901-1980)

Antique Large Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Carved Statue Sculpture "Psyche" by Oreste Ferrari, 1880 Redo The Smithsonian New YorkSOLD An exquisite large antique 19th century Italian Neoclassical Grand Tour Carrara marble statue of Psyche, by Oreste Ferrari (1823 1880), signed and dated, Rome, 1880. The sculpture depicts a classically posed, beautiful, nude winged female figure, sitting in repose against a palm tree. She has a beautiful face and contemplatively stares into the foreground, her hair tresses cascade across her wings. She sits on a rocky outcrop, with one leg gently