Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown coffee service with gold figure and silver

with gold figure and silver border

the line of that long thin neck and small head--for me

The other features a sculpted nose

and lovely both with candles in them (they take very thin tapers) or just by themselves

but based on other works I believe likely dates to the 1940s

Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown coffee service with gold figure and silverI have no idea the story behind this plaster bust, but I think it's wonderful. I love how completely androgynous the figure is, who I take for a young Roman, perhaps Julius Caesar himself, crowned with metal laurel wreath but really I think it could be anyone one wants, and without the crown reminds me a lot of an old Santos figure. The figure's face itself transforms a little, too, depending on point of view, so he, or she, or they, remain always a