TWELVE PLASTER SECTIONS FROM THE PARTHENON FRIEZE
TWELVE PLASTER SECTIONS FROM THE PARTHENON FRIEZE

AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ATTRIBUTED TO D. BRUCCIANI & CO, PROBABLY LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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TWELVE PLASTER SECTIONS FROM THE PARTHENON FRIEZE
AFTER THE ANTIQUE, ATTRIBUTED TO D. BRUCCIANI & CO, PROBABLY LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
40 in. (102 cm.) high; 563 in. (1430 cm.) wide approx.
Provenance
Tennant's Auctioneers, North Yorkshire, 23 November 2006, lot 687.
Literature
M. Binney, 'Aynhoe Park', Country Life, July 2008, p. 84.
J. Thornicroft, 'The House of Sculpture', Architectural Digest, Russia, October 2011, pp. 274-283.
R.Frederiksen-E.Marchand. Plaster Casts, Berlin-New York, 2010, p. 629, fig. 35.3.

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Reductions of the Greek 5th century BC marble originals removed from the Parthenon, Athens, on the instruction of Lord Elgin in the early 19th century. Now in the collection of the British Museum, London.

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