An 18thC Italian Carved Wood Mannequin Bust of a Lady sub-Antiques ‘Company School’ art is a

‘Company School’ art is a hybrid Indian-European style of depiction that developed in eighteenth and nineteenth-century India through this new form of patronage

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An 18thC Italian Carved Wood Mannequin Bust of a Lady sub-Antiques ‘Company School’ art is aOrigin: Italian Period: Mid Late 18thC Provenance: Formerly of the Collection Pietro Vitali, Foligno Date: c. 1750 1800 Height: 17 Width: 9. 5 Depth: 9. 5 The beautiful polychromed and lacquered modelled head, now wonderfully worn with age, showing a female in bust length, carved in two sections, with one remaining original glass eye, and showing the remains of the polychrome decoration, to a semi elliptical base, and surviving from the last half of