A 19thC Italian Life-Size Painted Plaster Bust of Jesus Christ sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles from years of use

from years of use

Mobile wings

"the gentle giant

The top section of the backboard has been replaced with a later chipboard and there are runners inside that would have held a shelf which is now lacking

It is interesting the work is probably Dutch but it was relined and framed in Norwich

A 19thC Italian Life-Size Painted Plaster Bust of Jesus Christ sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles from years of useOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890Height: 23Width: 12Depth: 15 (all at extremities)Dating from the nineteenth century, the large and well cast and modelled wash painted plaster bust of Jesus Christ, or Ecce Homo, with Christ in black looking downward, the whole mounted on a gilt painted socle base and surviving from an Italian ecclesiastical setting. Although with obvious time worn wear to the painted decoration, the