An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Youth c.1900-20

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An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Youth c.1900-20Origin: English Period: Late Victorian Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 20 Width: 9 Depth: 9 (all at extremities) The wonderfully timeworn early twentieth century plaster bust of a youth or boy, retaining its original soft green paint, now handsomely abraded through decades of handling and shifting light, the whole raised on an architectural socle and surviving from the late Victorian period in beautifully decorative condition.

"[1] Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works

Just don’t take a bite

housing a collection of exotic butterflies containing approximately over one hundred and twenty specimens of butterfly

and in this case

By 1918 a whole new attitude had developed and this was hastened even further by the Second World War

When a 28-year-old store manager named Crystal Thomas asks him whether he wants a job

Outer Circumference: 19”

the artwork having a deliciously simple deco elegance

The condition of the busts varies to each but there is chipping to each as photographed

How amidst the strife

Bright was its great orator

There is some discoloration or water marks to the page edges in places with one particular area of stain to the right end of the plate but the diagrams and annotations remain in tact so this only serves in adding some more character

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