Lot 25
  • 25

Two plaster portrait busts representing Carl Theodor Duke in Bavaria, J. Steiner dated 1887

Estimate
800 - 1,200 EUR
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Description

  • the first bust: 67 cm.
one facing dexter, the other sinister, signed in the wet clay, both overpainted, the larger bust fractured through the neck and lacking socle, the smaller bust detached from socle and chipped on nose; together with a small terracotta head of a lady; also combined with an Italian basin of yellow marble, after the Antique, supported on three legs and lion paws, in fragmentary condition

Condition

Soiled and chips, the Athenienne in several pieces, section lacking from bowl
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