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A COLLECTION OF SEVEN PLASTER CAPITALS AND ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS
Lot 334

A COLLECTION OF SEVEN PLASTER CAPITALS AND ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS

THREE BY D. BRUCCIANI & CO., MOSTLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed9 October 2012

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A COLLECTION OF SEVEN PLASTER CAPITALS AND ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS
THREE BY D. BRUCCIANI & CO., MOSTLY 19TH CENTURY
Three capitals marked 'D.BRUCCIANI & CO, LONDON'
The largest: 28 in. (72 cm.) high approx. (7)

One: Historic plaster casts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sotheby's New York, 28 February 2006, part lot 59 and possibly others.
The Brucciani capitals almost certainly from the collection of the
Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Specialist note

The scrolling foliate frieze fragment reputedly cast from a section of 13th century stone cornicing at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris and the foliate quarter capital is possibly cast from an architectural detail of the 13th century Upper Chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. The Brucciani examples cast from 15th century Istrian stone examples in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.