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Lot 103

A PLASTER BUST OF A CLASSICAL YOUTH

BY D. BRUCCIANI & CO., LONDON, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed14 April 2010

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GBP 1,500

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A PLASTER BUST OF A CLASSICAL YOUTH
BY D. BRUCCIANI & CO., LONDON, MID-19TH CENTURY
On a waisted socle
Together with two modern plaster busts, 23¼ in. (59 cm.) high (3)

Specialist note

The sculptor Domenico Brucciani (b. 1815) opened workshops in Covent Garden in the late 1830s and was celebrated for his 'Galleria' in the 1860s. Apart from the supply of plaster casts, he also provided models for Messrs. Elkington and Co.'s electrotypes. In 1922 the Brucciani Company's moulds were taken over by the Board of Education through the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.