A Large & Decorative 19thC Classical Plaster Bust of The Sandal-Binding Hermes c.1890 sub-Architectural & Garden Mittenwald

Mittenwald

was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and has had work sell through Christies in New York for example

The English oak Elizabethan style moulded square-lobed top above a frieze decorated with applied facetted blocks and roundels

are very commonly misidentified as daguerreotypes

Owned by the same increasingly impoverished family until 1991

A Large & Decorative 19thC Classical Plaster Bust of The Sandal-Binding Hermes c.1890 sub-Architectural & Garden MittenwaldOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 1900 Width: 12 Height: 19. 5 The Base: 8 tapering to 7. 5 x 7. 5 After the antique, the large bronze brown stained composition plaster bust of a young man Hermes with his head turning sharply to sinister deriving from the statue of Hermes fastening his sandal c. 320 BCE, the bust surviving in original condition from the late nineteenth century. The condition of the bust is