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Frieze
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Frieze
- Place of origin:
France (made)
- Date:
ca.1884 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Plaster, cast
- Museum number:
REPRO.1884-717
- Gallery location:
In Storage
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.
Place of Origin
France (made)
Date
ca.1884 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown (production)
Materials and Techniques
Plaster, cast
Object history note
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.
Descriptive line
Cast of a frieze, plaster, taken from a 17th century stone frieze from the lost palace of the Tuileries in Paris, France, about 1884
Subjects depicted
Flowers; Fruit; Apollo; Serpents; Louis XIV (King of France); Cornucopias
Categories
Royalty; Sculpture; Myths & Legends
Collection code
SCP
