An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Youth c.1900-20 sub-Macabre- Medicine stable and has never suffered

stable and has never suffered from worm or restoration

and the fact that they were manufactured in Germany under licence

25 inches to 7

and the poise and shape of the figures here point to a keen knowledge of the human body and the use of colour is sparing but superbly effective

An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Youth c.1900-20 sub-Macabre- Medicine stable and has never sufferedOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 20 Width: 9 Depth: 9 (all at extremities) The wonderfully timeworn early twentieth century plaster bust of a youth or boy, retaining its original soft green paint, now handsomely abraded through decades of handling and shifting light, the whole raised on an architectural socle and surviving from the late Victorian period in beautifully decorative condition.