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A COLLECTION OF EIGHT PLASTER CAPITALS
Lot 335

A COLLECTION OF EIGHT PLASTER CAPITALS

THREE BY D. BRUCCIANI & CO., ONE POSSIBLY LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE REMAINDER MOSTLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed9 October 2012

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A COLLECTION OF EIGHT PLASTER CAPITALS
THREE BY D. BRUCCIANI & CO., ONE POSSIBLY LATE 18TH CENTURY, THE REMAINDER MOSTLY 19TH CENTURY
Three capitals marked 'D.BRUCCIANI & CO, LONDON'
The largest: 21 in. (53 cm.) high approx. (8)

Some: Historic plaster casts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sotheby's New York, 28 February 2006, part lots 10, 80 and 140.
The Brucciani capitals almost certainly from the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
The corner capital reputed to have come from an interior at Crichel House, Dorset, possibly by James Wyatt.

Specialist note

One capital possibly cast from ornament of the Palais des Tuileries, Paris, which was destroyed by fire in 1871.
The large capital to the top of the illustration believed to be cast from a 2nd century marble capital from Hadrian's Mausoleum, Rome. The Brucciani examples cast from 15th century Istrian stone examples in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.