Connecticut

beautifully executed and untouched

"Synchronal "Dragon Form" Patricia F Arnett N

The ogee cornice above panelled doors with pine backboards and adjustable shelving behind

Height 33ln (84cm)

The Foot of Laocoon Textiles ConnecticutA 19th museum plaster taken from "Laocoon and his sons". Numbered "2487" with wall hanger, probably the work of D. Bruccianni & Co but unsigned. Late 19th century. The statue of Laocon and his sons, also called the Laocon Group, was excavated in Rome in 1506 and put on public display at the Vatican Museum, where it remains today. The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on