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THBCarved Alabaster Bust of a Girl on Three-Tiered Marble Base
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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About Auction
LiveJan 18, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 1 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of fine art from mixed medias and abstracts to landscapes and lithographs. We have a Todd Warner Rhino Sculpture, a collection of art glass sculptures, modern furniture, Lalique, Kosta Boda, Parkwest Gallery artworks, and Coca-Cola collectibles. Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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- Lot Description
Carved Alabaster Bust of a Girl on Three-Tiered Marble Base. The demure feminine figure has her hair pulled into loops, and rests on a black and white marble base (not attached).
Size Without Base: 15 x 8 x 15 in.
#4306 .
Alabaster is a mineral and a soft rock used for carvings and as a source of plaster powder. In archaeology, the term alabaster includes objects and artefacts made from two different minerals: the fine-grained, massive type of gypsum, and the fine-grained, banded type of calcite. As types of alabaster, gypsum and calcite have similar properties, such as light color, translucence, and a softness that can be carved and sculpted. The historical use and application of alabaster for the production of carved, decorative artefacts and objets d’art is well-documented, and the substance is still used today. The English word alabaster was borrowed from Old French “alabastre,” in turn derived from Latin “alabaster” and that from Greek “alábastros.” Their word may be derived further from ancient Egyptian a-labaste, which refers to vessels of the Egyptian goddess Bast. Ancient Roman authors Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy wrote that the stone used for ointment jars called alabastra came from a region of Egypt known as Alabastron or Alabastrites. The purest alabaster is a snow-white material of fine uniform grain, and the coarser varieties of gypsum alabaster are converted by calcination into plaster of Paris, and are therefore sometimes known as “plaster stone.” The softness of alabaster enables it to be carved readily into elaborate forms, but its solubility in water renders it unsuitable for outdoor work. If alabaster with a smooth polished surface is washed with dishwashing liquid it will become rough, dull, and whiter, losing most of its translucency and lustre. The finer kinds of alabaster are thus employed largely as an interior ornamental stone, especially for ecclesiastical decoration and for the rails of staircases and halls. Today much of the world’s alabaster is extracted from the center of the Ebro Valley in Aragon, Spain, which has the largest known exploitable deposits. During the Middle Ages the craft of alabaster was almost completely forgotten, and a revival started in Italy in the mid-16th Century, but by the 18th Century high-quality Renaissance-style artifacts diminished as large-scale production techniques and economic changes took hold. To this day alabaster remains a popular carving rock, with pieces often designed to resemble great works of prior eras.
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15 x 8 x 15 in.
