Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Redo with an elephant and tiger

with an elephant and tiger

including one of George Washington and below two portraits of beautiful young women in 18th century dress

Each candelabra having twin candle holders and each bobeche in gilt bronze with fruiting swags and fruiting acanthus finial to the center

75" deep (framed)

A fine Victorian music canterbury with a twin-tiered whatnot above

Antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze Marble Bust Sculpture Dante Alighieri, Circa 1880 Redo with an elephant and tigerA good antique Italian Grand Tour Bronze and marble bust of Dante Alighieri, circa 1880. The bronze is most likely Florentine and modeled as the 13th century Italian Poet, writer and philosopher Dante Alighieri (1265 1321), the writer of one of literatures most important works, "The Divine Comedy". The bronze was created by the lost wax method and sits on the original and substantial variegated marble plinth. Condition is very good. Mounted: 16" tall