A PLASTER BUST OF A 'HEROIC HEAD'BY DOMENICO BRUCCIANI & CO, CIRCA 1900 Numbered to socle 2258 and inscribed to cast reverse Heroic head British Museum D Brucciani London 52.5cm high, 29cm wideThis head is based on the original from The Antique, which is in the British Museum. It was found in Ostia in ca. 1795, and came to the British Museum in 1856 via the collection of Samuel Rogers. The head is a Roman copy of a late classical or early Hellenistic original, and probably depicts Hermes

Losses from wear most notably to nose, eyebrows, right and left shoulder edges and with fritting and other edge losses, dirty- cast marks