Two 19thC Ecclesiastical Plaster Figures of The Immaculate Heart of Mary & St. David c.1880 poa-item for the shop window display

for the shop window display of jewellery and garments

Width: 76 inches

but this connection aside

There are several losses to the glaze with chips and cracks as per the photographs though the jar is in sound structural condition and it remains beautifully decorative

with a line of trees and the spires of Ghent in  silhouette on the horizon

Two 19thC Ecclesiastical Plaster Figures of The Immaculate Heart of Mary & St. David c.1880 poa-item for the shop window displayOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Mary: 42 high x 11 deep x 13 wide St. David: 43 high x 10 deep x 15 wide (all at extremities) The large moulded plaster figures, modelled as The Immaculate Heart of Mary ( or Madonna of the Sacred Heart) and St David, both with hollowed out rears having been removed from an ecclesiastical setting, and each standing on shaped bases, and surviving from the last quarter of the