Lot 31: A PLASTER BUST OF MERCURY

Manufactured by Brucciani & Co, 19th century, after the Antique Depicted looking up to dexter, with winged helmet, the reverse with maker's mark in an ellipse 'BRUCCIANI... LONDON', on a turned waisted socle 323/4 in. (83 cm.) high NOTES The sculptor Domenico Brucciani (b. 1815) opened workshops in Covent Garden in the late 1830s and was celebrated for his Galleria in the 1860s. Apart for the supply of plaster casts, he also provided models for Messrs. Elkington and Co.'s electrotypes. In 1922 the Brucciani Company's moulds were taken over by the Board of Education through the Victoria & Albert Museum.