The Foot of Laocoon Works of Art 20cm H x 23cm W

20cm H x 23cm W

Three way adjustable nickel plated uprights supported on a painted cast iron bases with makers mark to the underside

even retaining its original carpet to the treads

A diminutive Jefferson moonstone opaline glass pendant with a vented copper gallery

An exceptional late 18th

The Foot of Laocoon Works of Art 20cm H x 23cm WA 19th museum plaster taken from "Laocoon and his sons". Numbered "2487" with wall hanger, probably the work of D. Bruccianni & Co but unsigned. Late 19th century. The statue of Laocon and his sons, also called the Laocon Group, was excavated in Rome in 1506 and put on public display at the Vatican Museum, where it remains today. The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on