A 19th century Italian plaster portrait bust by D. Brucciani  after an original 15th century glazed terracotta bust (now in the Musee National de la Renaissance, Chateau D’Ecouen France) by Andrea Della Robbia, Florence 1435-1525.

Inscribed on the back: D. Brucciani.

Domenico Brucciani(1815-1880) originally fromLucca ran a very successful business producing casts of sculptural works frominternational collections including those in the South Kensington Museum (now
the V & A) and British Museum and then selling them commercially from his shop at 40 Russell Street known as the Galleria delle Belle Arti. The business capitalising on the 19thcentury fashion of having sculptural figures in the home continued until the 1st world war when the demand for plaster casts declined.

STOCK NUMBER 4164

Measurements
WIDTH:  12½ INS (32 CMS) HEIGHT: 16 INS (40.5 CMS)
DEPTH:  6 INS (29 CMS)