An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Youth c.1900-20 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews The wonderfully realised life-size sculpture

The wonderfully realised life-size sculpture of a young girl with short hair and an angular slim body

near Nottingham in 1589

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An Early 20thC Green Painted Plaster Bust of a Youth c.1900-20 Doe & Hope X Hannah Matthews The wonderfully realised life-size sculptureOrigin: 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.