An English plaster relief plaque of a lachrymose beekeeper,
cast from a George III chimneypiece tablet,
the prone male, attired in only a drape and holding a staff, shedding a tear as he leans on a beehive, the background carved in bas-relief with a monument engraved "VI SEES IGIEN", on the ground a unfurled manuscript entitled "DIGESTA F.F."
£175
cast at LASSCO Three Pigeons from the collections of Peter Hone. The marble original was sold at auction, together with another, for over £16,000 (See 48971)
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