Collinge Antiques

Description

Good quality polychrome painted plaster bust of a renaissance lady by Ateltiers de Moulage des Musees Nationaux c.1930. Half length bust of a young woman with a rather melancholy expression and downcast eyes in a tunic dress with draped sleeves and her hair bound and braided with ribbons. Attractive and original paintwork and maker’s badge to the inside. Some minor damage to the face and a few chips from the costume.
Begun in the basements of The Louvre itself in the late 18th.c. the Ateliers de Moulage (or moulding workshops) supplied fine quality reproductions of the museum’s greatest sculptural treasures to museums, art schools and private collections across the world. They continue to this day, using traditional techniques and still based in Paris.
Dimensions: width 16″, depth 7″, height 20″.
Please contact us for more images, delivery and shipping quotes. Alternatively you are welcome to view and collect at our large warehouse showroom in Llandudno Junction, North Wales (approximately 45mins from Chester). We have a large and ever changing selection of genuine good quality antique furniture of all types and have twice been shortlisted for the Home and Antiques Magazine Antique Shop of the Year Award. 01492 580022.