Live Auction 5047Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A GROUP OF VICTORIAN PLASTER MODELS
Lot 242

A GROUP OF VICTORIAN PLASTER MODELS

TWO BY D. BRUCCIANI, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Closed1 February 2011

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A GROUP OF VICTORIAN PLASTER MODELS
TWO BY D. BRUCCIANI, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Comprising seventeen anatomy models, a pair of framed reliefs of angel heads, a relief bust of a putto by Brucianni, a relief of Venus, and a model of Diana de Gabies, signed 'D. Brucciani & Co, London.' and impressed 12540'
Diana de Gabies -- 28 in. (71 cm.) high (22)

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 for the supply of plaster casts, he also provided models for Messrs. Elkington and Co.'s electrotypes.