Giuseppe Gambogi : An early 20th century carved cream and veined beige alabaster and gilt and polychrome decorated figure of 'Cleopatra'
Lot 405
The Orientalist figure of the Egyptian queen standing before a stepped moulded pedestal and low wall on breakfront platform base, her right hand resting on a chest, her left hand leaning on the ledge of the wall with incised hieroglyphic decoration, the figure dressed in a jewelled feathered vulture headdress over her voluminous curling hair, coin hung choli top, and sash belt, her draped wrap-over skirt open to the thigh, her feet clad in jewelled sandals, signed to the lower left hand side of the wall G. GAMBOGI, 98cm high, 45cm wide, 36cm deep
The Orientalist figure of the Egyptian queen standing before a stepped moulded pedestal and low wall on breakfront platform base, her right hand resting on a chest, her left hand leaning on the ledge of the wall with incised hieroglyphic decoration, the figure dressed in a jewelled feathered vulture headdress over her voluminous curling hair, coin hung choli top, and sash belt, her draped wrap-over skirt open to the thigh, her feet clad in jewelled sandals
The Orientalist figure of the Egyptian queen standing before a stepped moulded pedestal and low wall on breakfront platform base, her right hand resting on a chest, her left hand leaning on the ledge of the wall with incised hieroglyphic decoration, the figure dressed in a jewelled feathered vulture headdress over her voluminous curling hair, coin hung choli top, and sash belt, her draped wrap-over skirt open to the thigh, her feet clad in jewelled sandals, signed to the lower left hand side of the wall G. GAMBOGI, 98cm high, 45cm wide, 36cm deep
The Orientalist figure of the Egyptian queen standing before a stepped moulded pedestal and low wall on breakfront platform base, her right hand resting on a chest, her left hand leaning on the ledge of the wall with incised hieroglyphic decoration, the figure dressed in a jewelled feathered vulture headdress over her voluminous curling hair, coin hung choli top, and sash belt, her draped wrap-over skirt open to the thigh, her feet clad in jewelled sandals
