Antique Italian Art Nouveau Coldpainted Bronze Orientalist Figure Arab Girl by Ferdinando de Luca 1900 Decorative Arts 62 cm X 62 cm

62 cm X 62 cm

to the center is the carved date of 1851 above two carved wheatsheaves

Burkhardt was “a master—indeed the inventor—of the abstract memento mori

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all original and fully functioning cast iron English cheese press by Thomas Corbett of Shrewsbury

Antique Italian Art Nouveau Coldpainted Bronze Orientalist Figure Arab Girl by Ferdinando de Luca 1900 Decorative Arts 62 cm X 62 cmA very large & finely modeled antique Italian cold painted Orientalist bronze of a young Arab girl, by the Italian sculptor Ferdinando de Luca, circa 1900. Ferdinando de Luca (also known as Francesco de Luca) was an Italian sculptor working in the later part of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century, mainly executing high quality Art Nouveau & Art Deco figural subjects. This large bronze depicts a beautiful young Arab girl wearing a