Lot 20

Three chips to the base and a restored chip to front edge, loss to beak of bird (refer to extra images) the rest in good order. Ask office for details of restorer


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Reputedly purchased from Heim Gallery, London, 1969 according to estates original provenance notes

For discussion of the grave designed and executed by Lorenzo Bartolini for Sebastiano Kleiber, please see: Acordon, Angela. 'Il Monumento a Sebastiano Kleiber Di Lorenzo Bartolini Nel Cimitero Degli Inglesi e Alcune Proposte Sui Suoi Committenti e Sulla Cronologia Delle Sue Opere.' Mitteilungen Des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, vol. 45, no. 1/2, 2001, pp. 263–284

Lorenzo Bartolini has a well documented connection to Sebastiano Kleiber and his heirs/friends Alfred and Orazio Hall, the shared tomb of whom Bartolini designed and completed. Sebastiano Kleiber was a powerful merchant in Tuscany during this period, who passed in 1836, the inscription noting a recognition of his patronage, potentially commissioned by the inheritors of his copper mine.