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A large Neo-Classical painted plaster figure of Athena, by…
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Melbourne
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22-Nov-2012
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A large Neo-Classical painted plaster figure of Athena, by James Deville, circa 1820, 148 cm high on square Neo-Classical base, 85 cm high approx. 50 cm square. Impressed London Published Jun 1818 by F/J Deville. James Deville (d. 1846) was among other individual makers such as Humphrey Hopper, Robert Shout and Francis Harenberg who were producing figurative lamps in plaster, borrowing models and motifs from the connoisseur-designer, Thomas Hope. Deville was described in the Gentleman's Magazine as 'a plaster figure-maker, lamp manufacturer and phrenologist in the Strand' Delville supplied plaster figures to Camden Park, John Macarthur's house, Camden, NSW., on faux porphry pedestal with applied laurel wreaths
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