Antique Large Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Carved Statue Sculpture "Psyche" by Oreste Ferrari, 1880 Drawings & Prints circa 1525

circa 1525

Giovanni "Gio" Ponti was an Italian architect

This clock was purchased in the late 1990s for $26

Below are a pair of locking doors enclosing an elaborately fitted interior

He created mainly genre images in the style of Dutch painting of the 17th and 18th

Antique Large Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Carved Statue Sculpture "Psyche" by Oreste Ferrari, 1880 Drawings & Prints circa 1525SOLD An exquisite large antique 19th century Italian Neoclassical Grand Tour Carrara marble statue of Psyche, by Oreste Ferrari (1823 1880), signed and dated, Rome, 1880. The sculpture depicts a classically posed, beautiful, nude winged female figure, sitting in repose against a palm tree. She has a beautiful face and contemplatively stares into the foreground, her hair tresses cascade across her wings. She sits on a rocky outcrop, with one leg gently