An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Lady c.1900-20 poa-item of Italian 16th Century style

of Italian 16th Century style though almost certainly created in the eighteenth century

Paris atelier employed over 700 highly skilled artisans and would go on to employ many famous designers

In wonderfully original condition this is a stellar piece of decorative railwayana

Sublimely sumptuous

The hinges all operate as they should and it remains intact in all other areas with wear to the tooled leather and gilded brass as photographed

An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Lady c.1900-20 poa-item of Italian 16th Century styleOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 22. 5 Width: 11. 5 Depth: 9. 5 (all at extremities) The striking early twentieth century plaster bust depicting a young lady, her head inclined with a contemplative, almost theatrical poise, and modelled wearing a deeply folded ruffled collar, on an architectural socle base, in its original green wash paint and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth