Live Auction 7999Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Glass, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A NORTH ITALIAN MINIATURE FIGURE OF A LADY
Lot 82 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A NORTH ITALIAN MINIATURE FIGURE OF A LADY

CIRCA 1775, PERHAPS COZZI

Closed29 November 2011

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GBP 375

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A NORTH ITALIAN MINIATURE FIGURE OF A LADY
CIRCA 1775, PERHAPS COZZI
Modelled seated and holding a basket of fruit, wearing a yellow bodice and iron-red striped skirt, on an extensive rockwork base beside a long scroll enriched in purple and moulded with ovolo ornament (restoration to her right arm and broken across front of base and repaired, two leaves lacking)
2¼ in. (5.8 cm.) high

Dr. Andreina Torre, and thence by descent.

Specialist note

For the companion figure, see Raccolta di Porcellane Marino Nani Mocenigo, Venice, 1961, p. 19, no. 2 (illustrated on the front cover) for a figure emblematic of Astrology on a very similar type of base and of the same dimensions.