Mark Jones Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
Dimensions: 76cm high, 47cm wide, 32cm deep
This ambitious plaster casting, after the Roman marble statue of a bearded Hercules now in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, was presumably intended for a Country House folly or orangery based on its impressive scale and proportions. As a statement piece it would work as the centrepiece of an interior room, perhaps over a chimneypiece. It wouldn’t look out of place in Sir John Soane's museum! https://www.soane.org
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247001
(Black urn not included, just for scale.)
Mark Jones Antiques has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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Large Early 19th Century Plaster Keystone Mask of Hercules
