Antique Large Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Carved Statue Sculpture "Psyche" by Oreste Ferrari, 1880 Recently Added she is seated with her

she is seated with her arm resting on a velvet cushion

The brooch is accompanied with a letter from from 1880s by the head of Egyptology at the Smithsonian Institution

They are a true pair facing each other and would have flanked either side of the temple door entrance

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Antique Large Italian Grand Tour Carrara Marble Carved Statue Sculpture "Psyche" by Oreste Ferrari, 1880 Recently Added she is seated with herSOLD 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