A sculpted terracotta model of Minerva reclining, Italian or French#, 18th century, portrayed as partially draped, her head turned to dexter, with coils of hair descending from beneath her helmet to her scale armour cuirass, an oval shield supported in her left hand, a lowered torch in her right, with weapons protruding from beneath her drapery including a quiver of arrows, spears and a morning star; on an integrally modelled rectangular base, 36cm high, 42cm long
A sculpted terracotta model of Minerva reclining, Italian or French#, 18th century, portrayed as partially draped, her head turned to dexter, with coils of hair descending from beneath her helmet to her scale armour cuirass, an oval shield supported in her left hand, a lowered torch in her right, with weapons protruding from beneath her drapery including a quiver of arrows, spears and a morning star; on an integrally modelled rectangular base, 36cm high, 42cm long
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