A Large 19thC Painted Plaster Portrait Library Bust of St. Francis of Assisi; Ex Milford House antiques was the one the art

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presented in its original gilt gesso and polychrome painted carved pine frame consisting of foliate carvings with red berries

5 inches (with portholes)

though most importantly the piece remains solid throughout

A Large 19thC Painted Plaster Portrait Library Bust of St. Francis of Assisi; Ex Milford House antiques was the one the artOrigin: Unknown Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Milford house, Co. Carlow, Ireland Date: c. 1890 1900 Height: 23 Width: 18 Depth: 10 (all at extremities) Base: 8 square The large late Victorian plaster library bust depicting St. Francis of Assisi, wearing ceremonial robes and large pendant on a linked chain, the whole on a stepped socle square base, showing the original laurel green paint now beautifully worn with age, and surviving from the late