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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Chinese & Asian Arts & European Antiques
• Sale Date:
  22 Nov 2012 ~ 10am
  22 Nov 2012 ~ 2pm
• Lot #:
  1012
• Lot Description:
  A large Neo-Classical painted plaster figure of Athena, by James Deville, circa 1820
  148cm high on square Neo-Classical base
  85cm high approx. 50cm square
  Impressed London Published Jun 1818 by F/J Deville
• Notes:
  James Deville (d. 1846) was among other individual makers such as Humphrey Hopper, Robert Shout and Francis Harenberg who were producing figurative lamps in plaster, borrowing models and motifs from the connoisseur-designer, Thomas Hope. Deville was described in the Gentleman's Magazine as 'a plaster figure-maker, lamp manufacturer and phrenologist in the Strand' Delville supplied plaster figures to Camden Park, John Macarthur's house, Camden, NSW.
• Estimate:
  A$2,000 - 4,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Sculpture & Statuary

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