A French bronze terminal bust of a bearded classical male

19TH CENTURY

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A French bronze terminal bust of a bearded classical male
19th century
7¼in. (18.4cm.) high

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Four slightly smaller bronze busts appear as monopodiae terminals on a bookcase in the Ashmolean Museum, and are discussed by Nicholas Penny in Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the Present Day Clarendon Press 1992, volume one, pp.229-230.

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