Featured Can anyone identify this egyptian revival deco lamp?

I thought she had an oddly long toe! Lol

 

This one is too hilarious. Another Florentine sculptor:



https://www.bidsquare.com/online-au...tiaccini-19-20th-c-sculpture-cleopatra-542809

 

OK, now I'm utterly lost.

 

Umberto Stiaccini also did lamps. I feel I have seen 'La Perla' before & suspect it was somewhere here.

https://www.invaluable.com/artist/stiaccini-umberto-ni4usx742x/sold-at-auction-prices/

He is equally without any biographical info to be readily found on the Internet, only auction results for his work.

 

Pretty foot:

Not so pretty foot is indented and that big toe...!

 

Another Prof.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/19th-20th-century-sculpture-l18230/lot.37.html

signed: Call - Prof. APetrilli Firenze and entitled: CLEOPATRA
partially polychromed alabaster

Aristide Petrilli studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence and exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900.

Maybe both our profs became connected to the Academia di Belle Arti?

 

@komokwa WAS RIGHT!!

 

Indeed !

 

Seems for commercial sale - it would have been very simple to add a fake mark.

 

Sarchi & Umberto Stiaccini seem to have been in pretty much the same business, in Florence, in overlapping if not the same time. Both produced sculptures that were decorative only & some that accommodated a light bulb. Stiaccini, presumably with a workshop around him, produced multiples of his lamp designs. Sarchi seems to have done business on the same model.

For all I know, both names are fictional ones used by the same factory to disguise a whole stable of artisans. The whole thing is reminding me of the mystery I asked for help with here:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/numismatic-fraud-mystery.31383/

Beautiful, well made products, some seeming to have a maker's name until you get them together & start looking for the maker. No doubt all from the same company, the name of which is obscured by several fake ones.

 

'Sarchi' is an exceedingly uncommon name. Once you eliminate Costa Rica & Africa from search results, there's this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Sarchi

and these:
https://www.facebook.com/public/Gianluca-Sarchi
https://gohuskies.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=7211

Not to mention:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sarchi

We just missed Larry:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/lawrence-sarchi-obituary?pid=187739002

Maybe this is why 1920 keeps turning up:
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=sarchi

Looks like a nice B&B:
https://www.booking.com/hotel/it/villa-sarchi.html

More common in the US than in Italy. It's very strange. And not a single one of the sculptures or lamps came up in a simple search for 'Sarchi'.

 

On the other hand, search for Stiaccini, with no other qualifiers or filters, & you get a deluge of entries for sales of his sculptures and lamps. I thought this history of Bamberger's department store made a mistake with Ubaldo instead of Umberto:
https://books.google.com/books?id=9...ICBAB#v=onepage&q=stiaccini sculpteur&f=false
but looks like maybe it was Ubaldo Umberto in this old eBay offering:
SIGNED Ubaldo Umberto Stiaccini Nude Marble Statue Studio Sample Photo PRICELESS

In addition to a Macelleria Stiaccini, there are other Stiaccinis to be found out there. Umberto seems more like a real person than 'Sarchi' does, although, again, nothing connected with that name other than the works.

 

I did:

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/art-deco-alabaster-nude.22189/#post-298811

 

I was able to see all images with box app.

 

What I would like to see is the appraisal you talk about. Is it also a photo?

 

An online appraisal I posted earlier. I gave the link for images somewhere on here, too. You may need to install "box" - i had to.

Justanswer.com

https://app.box.com/s/rfoi4roshmy7o82l8t03e85askm6t04m

Worn out from downloading and uploading links from strange apps and phones. No more links for me... Fun ride!

 

The request included about 25 images, none with marks.

 

Did not understand that the info was under a header about a lacquer screen. I see it now. The other link works for the photos without my needing to do anything more.

Friend told questioner all that history & that it was looked at by Sotheby's, who gave them some kind of document & wanted very much the chance to sell it, yet they are aware only that it says Made in Italy & think it is unsigned? Now what!

 

Who is "they"?

It's all a bit confusing: Appraiser knew who it was, without a mark. Valued it way under Sotheby's even with the stand, bc it isn't a big deco name and possibly bc unmarked. He didn't mention that.

Where the H is that Sotheby's valuation? The owner may not even have agreed with the appraisal - no idea... Specifically says it was commissioned as a gift for a specific actress, but not that she sat for it.

In any case, they believed it to be of value and commissioned a beautiful stand for it.