DANTE ZOI | NYMPH WITH A STAR
Auction Closed
July 10, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
DANTE ZOI
Italian
late 19th/early 20th Century
NYMPH WITH A STAR
signed: DANTE Zoi FIRENZE
alabaster
99cm., 39in.
Active in Florence, Dante Zoi was famous for his decorative alabaster sculpture. This Nymph dressed in diaphanous drapery and presenting a star relates to the sculptor's Allegoria della notte, illustrated in A. Panzetta, Nuovo Dizionario degli Scultori Italiani dell'Ottocento e del Primo Novecento, Turin, 2003, p. 1002, figs. 1998 and 1999