A Large 19thC Painted Plaster Portrait Library Bust of St. Francis of Assisi; Ex Milford House antiques and elsewhere

and elsewhere

with a few small chips

having a two train weight-driven two-handed movement with anchor escapement and gravity rack striking gathered via shaped collet to the second wheel and sounding on a bell mounted above

presented in its original gilt gesso and polychrome painted carved pine frame consisting of foliate carvings with red berries

A Large 19thC Painted Plaster Portrait Library Bust of St. Francis of Assisi; Ex Milford House antiques and elsewhereOrigin: Unknown Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Milford house, Co. Carlow, Ireland Date: c. 1890 1900 Height: 23 Width: 18 Depth: 10 (all at extremities) Base: 8 square The large late Victorian plaster library bust depicting St. Francis of Assisi, wearing ceremonial robes and large pendant on a linked chain, the whole on a stepped socle square base, showing the original laurel green paint now beautifully worn with age, and surviving from the late