A 19thC Italian Life-Size Painted Plaster Bust of Jesus Christ sub-Religion & Relics whilst the general condition is

whilst the general condition is sound with no structural damage but with some paint flaking

mainly intended as decorations rather than for use

There are over twenty villages located in the mountains with two prominent tribes

This improved the pokerwork process by allowing the addition of tinting and shading that previously were impossible

A 19thC Italian Life-Size Painted Plaster Bust of Jesus Christ sub-Religion & Relics whilst the general condition isOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890Height: 23Width: 12Depth: 15 (all at extremities)Dating from the nineteenth century, the large and well cast and modelled wash painted plaster bust of Jesus Christ, or Ecce Homo, with Christ in black looking downward, the whole mounted on a gilt painted socle base and surviving from an Italian ecclesiastical setting. Although with obvious time worn wear to the painted decoration, the