An English relief-cast frieze,
Cast in plaster at LASSCO Three Pigeons by Peter Hone, from a Renaissance oak carving,
the relief cast with hippocampi and cavorting bacchanalian putti,
£195
Peter Hone is a celebrated Master Plaster Caster with his workshop here at LASSCO Three Pigeons.
This casting was taken from the early 18th Century original by Nicholas Hawksmoor at St. Alphege’s Church Greenwich.
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