1898 Alabaster bust by Antonio Frilli. Antonio Frilli was a Florentine🎨 sculptor who specialized in marble and alabaster statues for public and private customers.

In 1860, Frilli established his first and exclusive Atelier in via dei Fossi, Florence, where he worked with a few assistants on medium-size refined painted alabasters and big white Carrara marble statues for private villas .

His works decorate famous cemeteries such as Porte Sante and Allori in Florence.

A marble portrait of Frilli was carved in his Atelier after his death, and it was placed on his family tomb in Cimitero degli Allori.

Frilli and his gallery were well known in Europe, the United States and Australia, as he took part in several world's fair exhibitions.

He was in Philadelphia for the Centennial Exposition of 1876, and in 1881 his statues and garden furnitures were exhibited in the Italian Pavilion in Melbourne, Australia.

In 1904, two years after Frilli's death, his son Umberto took part in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, where one of his father's works - a sculpture on a "Woman on a Hammock" in white Carrara marble - won the Grand Prize.

The bust presented for your consideration is unique in its beauty and its trio of subjects. It is in need of restoration, cleaning but is solid. Damage is mostly to the reverse of the base and on the base which had at sometime been repaired. There is a small chip on the infant's cheek and its soother is missing a piece. See pictures for details.

I am open to offers and appreciate any information or advice that people might give.

Shipping is to be determined though a base 500$ amount is specified. If cheaper shipping costs will be refunded. Note this is a very heavy item .