EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH BRONZE BUST OF PLATO
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
After the Antique, head inclined to dexter, on a waisted striated marble socle
26½in. (67.2cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A similar model is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, believed to be by the de Angelis/Chiurazzi foundry of Naples. Although traditionally known as Plato, the Ashmolean have catalogued their example as Dionysoplaton.

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