A Good 20thC Male Portrait Mannequin Head sub-Curios The gilt and gesso painted

The gilt and gesso painted pine exhibit nameplate label from the original oil painting of 'The Imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at Lochleven Castle' by Alfred Barron Clay (1831 -1868) painted in 1857 and exhibited in 1861

terminating in a small turned collar and a finely carved monkey’s head with bellboy hat

This piece is a good example and has a wonderful symmetry about it

City of Bones

Open Length: 10 inches including chain (approx)

A Good 20thC Male Portrait Mannequin Head sub-Curios The gilt and gesso paintedOrigin: British Period: Mid Late Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1960 80 Height: 10 inches Circumference: 22 inches (at temple) The artists study plaster modelled mannequin head of a young man, hand painted with enamel eyes, realistically rendered eyelashes, dark brown hair and sideburns, having a slightly disturbing comatose or brain dead like expression with closed mouth and rolled eyes, survives from the mid to late twentieth