Antique Italian Art Nouveau Coldpainted Bronze Orientalist Figure Arab Girl by Ferdinando de Luca 1900 Paintings lower right

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Then with a visit to the Continent in 1872 Nisbet found his true vein among the sunlit cities and towns of Italy and Spain

Athanasios enthroned in the Byzantine style and painted with egg tempera and heightened with 24 karat gold leaf

with the original sterling silver and glass fitted contents

75" long X 17

Antique Italian Art Nouveau Coldpainted Bronze Orientalist Figure Arab Girl by Ferdinando de Luca 1900 Paintings lower rightA 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