A 19thC Black Painted Plaster Library Bust of Demosthenes; Wormington Grange sub-Architectural & Garden A very evocative piece in

A very evocative piece in wondrous aged condition

Showing just the right doses of character

This unique sculpture includes the following skulls

the opening of the worlds first Christmas grotto and the longest ever fog in the city's history engulfing London

his birth date is uncertain: suggestions range from 462 to 512

A 19thC Black Painted Plaster Library Bust of Demosthenes; Wormington Grange sub-Architectural & Garden A very evocative piece inOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: Wormington Grange, EnglandDate: c. 1870 90Width: 12Depth: 8Height: 20. 5 Base Diameter: 7. 75 (all at extremities)The very decorative plaster portrait bust of Demosthenes (384322 BCE), in his prime years, modelled after the Greek original held at the Museo Nazionale in Naples, sometimes described as portraying Lysimachus or Aratus, the head turned to dexter, above a waisted circular socle; inscribed