Live Auction 7540A House on the Wiltshire Downs
AN ITALIAN VARIEGATED CREAM MARBLE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF ASIA
Lot 116

AN ITALIAN VARIEGATED CREAM MARBLE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF ASIA

POSSIBLY VENETIAN

Closed6 March 2008

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GBP 13,700

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AN ITALIAN VARIEGATED CREAM MARBLE ALLEGORICAL FIGURE EMBLEMATIC OF ASIA
POSSIBLY VENETIAN
Modelled standing by a camel
55 in. (140 cm.)
On a verde antico rectangular plinth, 18 in. (46 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

The feather and pearl-jewelled female personifies the Continent of Asia as one of the 'Four Parts of the World' according to Cesare Ripa's, Iconologia.