A Fine Quality c.1900 Marble Bust of a Gentleman Draped as a Roman Nobleman from Cairness House sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles was described as an ‘attempt

was described as an ‘attempt to elucidate that ancient and sublime science’ and ‘the most entertaining method ever introduced to instruct young persons in the sublime science of astronomy’

from circus font to gothic

there are a few minor old scuffs and marks

more rarely cream

The signs of the Zodiac

A Fine Quality c.1900 Marble Bust of a Gentleman Draped as a Roman Nobleman from Cairness House sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles was described as an ‘attemptOrigin: English Period: Late Nineteenth Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Cairness House, Aberdeenshire Date: c. 1890 1910 Diameter at Socle: 10 inches Depth: 14 inches Width: 21 inches Height: 30. 5 inches (all at extremities) The beautifully carved heavy quality large weathered marble bust draped as a bald Roman nobleman or senator with a placid expression, the whole on an integral socle, surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century and