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and was awarded first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1920

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and is still as quiet as he was

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A Decorative Early 18thC Italian Carved Gessoed Wood & Pressed Leather Relief Panel sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles It is one of theOrigin: Italian Period: Early Eighteenth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1720 40 Height: 17. 5 inches Width: 21. 5 inches Depth: 2 inches Of rectangular form, centered by a lyre above a laurel wreath, flanked to each side by scrolling foliage, grotesques and musical herm figures, with a band of trailing flowers and foliage to top and bottom, set into a carved wood frame with stiff leaf surround, the frame later associated. This would have started