A COLLECTION OF EIGHT PLASTER CASTS OF ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS
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A COLLECTION OF EIGHT PLASTER CASTS OF ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS

MOSTLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed9 October 2012

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A COLLECTION OF EIGHT PLASTER CASTS OF ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS
MOSTLY 19TH CENTURY
The mask: 18½ in. (47 cm.) high; 28½ in. (72 cm.) wide (8)

Some: Historic plaster casts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sotheby's New York, 28 February 2006, part lots 10, 70 and possibly others.

Specialist note

The stylised lion head, reputedly cast from a 5th century BC marble waterspout from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Greece.
One small capital reputedly cast from a 16th century wooden original in the Cathedral of St. Eienne, Limoges.