HERE ARE THE SALIENT FEATURES OF THIS INTERESTING AND WHIMSICAL SCULPTURE:
THE DATE OF BIRTH OF THIS MARBLE FIREPLACE MANTEL IS AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, MORE OR LESS WE ARE IN THE PERIOD WHEN GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI WAS MEDITATING (MUCH TO THE CHAGRIN OF BOSSI AND BORGHEZIO AND SALVINI) TO MAKE OF THE ITALIC PENINSULA ONE BUNCH.
THE DESIGN IS, CLEARLY, A RARE (INCREASINGLY RARE) MODEL OF A SHELL CARVED AS A "JELLYFISH VEIL” (FRENCH STYLISM, THE MOST REFINED SINCE THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE).
ITS PRESERVATION IS DEFINABLE AS VERY GOOD, AS IT HAS NO SPLITS AT ALL NOR ANY MISSING, BUT ONLY VERY FINE SUPERFICIAL TRACES OF THE FINE WEATHER PAST.
CONCERNING THE QUALITY OF SCULPTURE, WE CAN SAY THAT IT IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO A VERY ITALIAN WORKSHOP ON THE SLOPES OF MOUNT AMIATA (LUNIGIANA AREA).
