A 19thC Black Painted Plaster Library Bust of Demosthenes; Wormington Grange sub-Architectural & Garden his birth date is uncertain:

his birth date is uncertain: suggestions range from 462 to 512

Showing just the right doses of character

is a climbing plant indigenous to East Africa and growing freely in the forests near the Zambesi

and the whole is stable

with a fantastic patina and colour

A 19thC Black Painted Plaster Library Bust of Demosthenes; Wormington Grange sub-Architectural & Garden his birth date is uncertain:Origin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: Wormington Grange, EnglandDate: c. 1870 90Width: 12Depth: 8Height: 20. 5 Base Diameter: 7. 75 (all at extremities)The very decorative plaster portrait bust of Demosthenes (384322 BCE), in his prime years, modelled after the Greek original held at the Museo Nazionale in Naples, sometimes described as portraying Lysimachus or Aratus, the head turned to dexter, above a waisted circular socle; inscribed