A BRONZE BUST OF AJAX

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A BRONZE BUST OF AJAX
AFTER THE ANTIQUE

Greenish-brown patina, truncated at the shoulders with a gilt socle on a red marble and beechwood plinth
17½in. high

Lot Essay

The above bust is based on a marble group known as Pasquino, having been named after the schoolmaster who lived in a house next to the abandonned sculpture which had been covered in dirt prior to being erected in 1509. (Cf. F. Haskell & N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, Yale University Press 1981 pp.291-296)

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