Not currently on display at the V&A

Frieze

ca.1884 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Cast of a frieze, plaster, showing a mask of the Sun-God, Apollo, particularly associated with Louis XIV. Also shown are fruit, flowers, serpents and cornucopias, or goats' horns filled with fruit and representing plenty.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Plaster, cast
Brief description
Cast of a frieze, plaster, taken from a 17th century stone frieze from the lost palace of the Tuileries in Paris, France, about 1884
Physical description
Cast of a frieze, plaster, showing a mask of the Sun-God, Apollo, particularly associated with Louis XIV. Also shown are fruit, flowers, serpents and cornucopias, or goats' horns filled with fruit and representing plenty.
Dimensions
  • Length: 106.7cm
  • Height: 38.1cm
Object history
Taken from a 17th century stone frieze from the lost palace of the Tuileries in Paris, showing a mask of the Sun-God, Apollo, particularly associated with Louis XIV. Also shown are fruit, flowers, serpents and cornucopias, or goats' horns filled with fruit and representing plenty.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
REPRO.1884-717

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Record createdJuly 12, 2005
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