The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candlestick
- NMC/1804
- Item
- c1800s
Metal, possibly brass, simple inverse funnel shape candlestick from the GSA handling collection with 'GSA 927' marked in red on the base.
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The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candlestick
Metal, possibly brass, simple inverse funnel shape candlestick from the GSA handling collection with 'GSA 927' marked in red on the base.
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The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candlestick (Version 1)
The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candlestick (Version 2)
The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candle holder (Version 3)
The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candlestick (Version 3)
The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candle holder
Heavy, machined brass candle holder. Threaded bore in base suggests that there may have been other parts to this originally, possibly the base for a candelabra. Part of the School handling collection, marked 'sch 40' in red paint on base.
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The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candle holder (Version 2)
The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candlestick (Version 1)
The Glasgow School of Art still life object, candlestick (Version 2)
Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
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Japanese style paper stencil featuring wave motif, probably used as a teaching resource.
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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
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Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze (Block XL from the North frieze)
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
*Not available / given
Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
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Plaster cast of cherub roundel with wings (Version 1)
Part of Plaster Casts
Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 6)
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Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 8)
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Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 9)
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Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 11)
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Chest containing collection of cast reliefs (Version 23)
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Chest containing collection of cast reliefs
Wooden chest with twelve small shallow drawers and two larger drawers. Contains collection of cast reliefs of portrait busts, religious scenes, ancient Greek/Roman scenes, military scenes, and architecture.
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Japanese style paper stencil featuring flowers, probably used as a teaching resource.
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Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons (Version 4)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Parthenon Frieze
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Designed by Pheidias, 447-432BC. Figures bearing water jugs. It is generally agreed that the frieze depicts (in narrative form) the Greater Panathenaic procession from the Leokoreion by the Dipylon gate to the Acropolis, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787. Original currently in the collection of the Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece.
Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior
Part of Plaster Casts
Original: Also known as: Discobolus, Fighting Gladiator, Hector, Heros Combattant, Borghese Gladiator. Particularly admired for its truthful rendering of anatomy. A Hellenistic sculpture actually portraying a swordsman, created at Ephesus about 100 BCE. Listed in first catalogue of casts as Greek, in the Louvre and was bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Photographed in GSA in 1915.
Large red glazed ceramic vase with red marking on bottom "GSA 581". Due to information in a 1958 inventory, vase can be dated pre-1958. It may be a student piece or could have been bought and used as a teaching aid.
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Brass lantern treated with gold finish with cut-out ornamental design on top and bottom. Has glass covering for light, cut wires on bottom which would have been attached to light bulb inside. Lantern would have been attached to the wall. Back of lantern has red marking, "SCH-302". Indented stamp on top front of lamp, "ALLAN & CO". Due to information in an inventory, lantern can be dated pre-1958.
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Collection of cast reliefs (Version 8)
Collection of cast reliefs (Version 12)
Collection of cast reliefs (Version 16)
Japanese style paper stencil featuring patterned borders, probably used as a teaching resource.
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Collection of cast reliefs (Version 9)
Collection of cast reliefs (Version 14)
Collection of cast reliefs (Version 15)
Collection of cast reliefs (Version 17)
Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons
Part of Plaster Casts
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018. All that remains is a fragment of a hand.
Original: This statue group was found in 1506 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome and immediately identified as the Laocoon described by Pliny the Elder as a masterpiece of the sculptors of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus around 40-30 BC. It shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents. In 1587 Giovanni Battista Armenini's treatise on painting and recommended all students to draw from the casts of the finest statues in Rome- 'the Laocoon, the Hercules, the Apollo, the Great Torso....' of the Belvedere. Listed in first catalogue as Greco-Roman and that the original is located in the Vatican. Original currently in the collection of the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy.
This item was damaged in the fire in the Mackintosh Building on 23rd May 2014. It underwent conservation and consolidation work in 2016.
Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons (Version 3)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Laocoon and his Sons (Version 5)
Part of Plaster Casts
Plaster cast of Borghese Warrior
Part of Plaster Casts
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: Also known as: Discobolus, Fighting Gladiator, Hector, Heros Combattant, Borghese Gladiator. Particularly admired for its truthful rendering of anatomy. A Hellenistic sculpture actually portraying a swordsman, created at Ephesus about 100 BCE. Listed in first catalogue of casts as Greek, in the Louvre and was bought from Brucciani. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.
Plaster cast of the Dying Slave
Part of Plaster Casts
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 15th June 2018.
Original: Michelangelo, originally for the tomb of Pope Julius II in 1505, began to carve the Slaves in 1513, as part of a modified project. On the Pope's death, the project changed once again, for financial reasons. Michelangelo donated the Slaves to Roberto Strozzi, who brought them to France. Original currently in the collection of the Louvre, Paris, France.