About the Artwork
Reliquary Bust of Female Saint
between 1750 and 1800
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Italian
Italian
Gilded wood
Including base: 26 1/4 × 15 3/4 × 8 9/16 inches (66.7 × 40 × 21.7 cm) Overall (Bust): 18 inches × 15 3/4 inches × 7 1/2 inches (45.7 × 40 × 19 cm) Overall (Socle): 8 1/4 × 10 15/16 × 8 9/16 inches (21 × 27.8 × 21.7 cm) Overall (Column): 72 7/8 × 13 7/16 × 13 3/8 inches (185.1 × 34.2 × 34 cm)
Sculpture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of T. Ashrawy
47.97
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
VNA/... (remainging traces of inscription illegible)
Provenance
T. Ashrawy (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1947-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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A. P. Darr, P. Barnet, A. Boström, with contributions by C. Avery... [et. al.], Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Detroit Institute of Arts, London: Harvey Miller Publishers, in assoc. with the Detroit Institute of Arts, 2002, 2 vols., II, cat. 149 a, b.
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Italian, Reliquary Bust of Female Saint, between 1750 and 1800, Gilded wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of T. Ashrawy, 47.97.
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