A 19thC Italian Life-Size Painted Plaster Bust of Jesus ChristOrigin: ItalianPeriod: Late 19thCProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890Height: 23Width: 12Depth: 15 (all at extremities)Dating from the nineteenth century, the large and well cast and modelled wash painted plaster bust of Jesus Christ, or Ecce Homo, with Christ in black looking downward, the whole mounted on a gilt painted socle base and surviving from an Italian ecclesiastical setting. Although with obvious time worn wear to the painted decoration, the