Giant and Amazon, Museo Napoli, 1875 Albumen Print carved stone snuff bottle from the wonderfully primitive shoe

from the wonderfully primitive shoe form at top

painted/stained a great mellow reddish/pinkish orange

and a few Weidlers who were teachers

and 2 3/4" tall

" still attached to its back

Giant and Amazon, Museo Napoli, 1875 Albumen Print carved stone snuff bottle from the wonderfully primitive shoeA year or so ago I bought and sold a couple of c. 1875 Grand Tour albumen photos documenting sculptures in the Museum di Napoli (now known as the National Archaeological Museum, Naples); this past week I went back to the same dealer who had put out a few more and I snapped them right up. And though the giant and amazon lushly carved of marble here are meant to be dead, they sure look powerful and full of life to me, as if just in a momentary state of