Affortunato Gory, (Italian, active circa 1895 ~ 1925), a sculpted white marble and gilt bronze mounted model of a Bacchante, circa 1900, portrayed in ecstatic dance, her arms raised above her grapevine adorned hair, her drapery falling away from her breasts and billowing behind her, her weight on her right foot; the naturalistically cast base with a thyrsus, flowers and foliage, and inscribed Gory in the maquette; atop a shaped and waisted rouge and white marble socle